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Instant replay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2012
... by 2.9% in Q1 - the most since Q4 2010 - from 2.1% in Q4 2011. And there may be more where that came from. The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan's final index of consumer confidence rose to 76.4 in April - the highest in a year -- from 76.2 last ...

It's all in the spin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2012
... today sold 2.52 billion euros in inflation-linked securities maturing in July 2018." Now go figure. Nah, we don't have to. Reuters has already figured it out for us. Its survey of 29 economists showed that the majority don't expect Spain and Italy would ...

No QE, not bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2012
... stimulus hopes" (AFR); "Wall Street Slumps as QE3 Hopes Cool" (Fox Business); "Wall Street ends lower after Fed minutes" (Reuters). Sensational! Isn't it Virginia? Now all hope is lost. I'm deleting Ben from my Facebook's friends' list. But you know ...

Wheel of fortune

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 APR 2012
... times ahead" become one of the best of times. And it appears to be paying dividends. In the middle of last month, when Reuters' survey of 250 economists revealed that, "Developed economies will pick up steam this year thanks to an array of ultra-loose ...

No greed, no fear, no volume

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2012
... And get this. After all the ups and downs of the past week, the S&P 500 index is down by only 0.5% overall. This, says Reuters, is its worst performance since the last week of December and only the second down week this year. The other was a minute 0.17% ...

When optimism rains, it pours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2012
... tendency to become self-fulfilling. Yeah, this is what we want. And it looks like it's beginning to take hold. A recent Reuters survey of more than 250 economists shows that, "Developed economies will pick up steam this year thanks to an array of ultra-loose ...

TSCGEMU

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2012
... on-going European saga, but it's not. It had been already been floated at the EU Summit held last 30 January. Here was Reuters' report before the event: "EU leaders will hold a summit next Monday devoted to putting forward a growth strategy. But it will ...

No more fear - maybe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2012
... "S&P 500 Rises to Highest Level Since 2008" (Bloomberg) "US STOCKS-S&P 500 posts highest close in nearly four years" (Reuters) "S&P 500 closes near four-year high" (Australian Financial Review) These headlines were referring to 5 June 2008 - a little ...

Crescent Wealth partners with US fund manager

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2012
... launched its first fund in Australia last October and earlier this month launched an Islamic index partnership with Thomson Reuters. According to Ernst & Young, Islamic banking assets around the world are worth over US$1 tn, with an estimated US$50 bn ...

Insult me, insult you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2012
... This adds to my suspicion that Greece's single currency brethrens now prefer Greece to die. Et tu Brutus? According to Reuters, "Germany, Finland and the Netherlands are the countries pushing to delay the package... with Germany the most adamant and ...