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Grand currency sale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 OCT 2010

Australia's big bro

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 OCT 2010
Dateline 1 July 1997. Many will remember this day, the day that the United Kingdom handed Hong Kong back to the People's Republic of China. There was much trepidation and fear in the air leading up to the expiration of the UK's 99-year lease on the ...

Spoiling for war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 OCT 2010
It's a wrap! It's official! September 2010 is the man! Wall Street may have been down for the day but it produced the best September gain even before many of us were born. The S&P 500 index soared by 8.8 per cent in the month, the Dow jumped by 7.7 ...

The good smoke

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2010
Smoking is bad. Just ask the Breckland Council in Norfolk. It has just announced plans to force its staff to clock off clock on when they go on ciggie breaks - and then make up for lost hours. But as they say, one man's trash is another man's stash. ...

Wonderfully wrong September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2010
Looks like something's gone wonderfully wrong on Wall Street this month. This isn't the month to be jolly but with only two winks left before the seventh moon of 2010 is over, the US stock market is on course for its biggest September gain in 71 years. ...

Gotta love gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2010
We've been told that the US recession officially died 15 months ago and Wall Street, it seems, is no longer grieving. In fact, the S&P 500 index looks on track to claim its "biggest September gain in 71 years" - unless Bloomberg is mistaken, that is ...

One voice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 SEP 2010
So where's the September curse now, 'ey? With just four trading days to go, Wall Street may have forgotten that this month is statistically and historically the worst month for stocks. Not that nobody tried to remind investors, there were plenty of ...

Bad hair day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2010
There were snippets of good news overnight although on the whole, they were just that -snippets. Bad news dominated the headlines. There was more of the same confusing data out of America. Jobless claims rose by 12,000 in the week ending 18 September ...

Competing to devalue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2010
Let it rip boys! US equities closed weaker while we were sleeping apparently still reeling from the previous day's FOMC assessment that the US economy remains weak. Ok, let's give it that. But Bloomberg took it a bit farther. "The Fed said yesterday ...

Much ado over more of the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
All dressed up and nowhere to go. Yup! Wall Street went nowhere alright. A day before last night's Federal Open Market Committee Meeting (FOMC), Wall Street was all prepped, seemingly ready to take it all, whatever the Fed decides - or more, importantly ...