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Just replace because with despite

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2011
... See? Easy. The US Commerce Department revealed that durable goods order dropped by a bigger-than-expected 3.6 per cent in April - the most since October (before the Fed announced QE2). Non-defense orders excluding aircraft - that which is used as an ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2011
The Australian market is expected to open higher on Tuesday after Wall Street closed flat overnight while European and Asian markets generally were higher. Oil and metals rose. On the ASX 24 at 0717 AEST, the June share price index futures contract ...

Bear have no fur

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2011
Brace yourselves people for this would be a longer-than-usual piece. Get that Monday-itis off your systems. There's work to be done, money to be made! During my weekend reading, I came across an article by a fellow named Danny Furman. His resume says ...

Bad news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011
Surprise, surprise! There were more negative/depressing data releases over the past 24 hours than over the past few "days of fear" combined, yet most equity markets ended on the up and up. No Virginia, I'm not talking about ol' Dominique Strauss-Kahn ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
The Australian dollar was higher at noon, as news that Japan had fallen into a technical recession failed to spook currency traders. At 1200 AEST, the Australian dollar was trading at 106.51 US cents, up from 106.24 cents on Wednesday. Since 0700 AEST ...

No minute message in FOMC minutes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
Look ma, I must be psychic! Twenty-four hours have not passed since I penned on this space that the mighty US Federal Reserve would dispel the fears, the anxiety, the trepidation that's currently doing the rounds of financial markets. And with the release ...

Nobody wins against the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011
The bad news just keep piling up don't they? And from the looks of them, they're everywhere. Let me take you to a bad news tour around the world Virginia, starting from our very own land DownUnder. If you're watching carefully, you'll notice that recent ...

Seeing evil, hearing evil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... recovery proceeds - as planned. This was the prevailing thought only a few months ago - in January, February, March and April -- when the "Jasmine Revolution" in the Middle East and North Africa sent oil prices gushing up. This was the prevailing thought ...

Calls for more investors in Great Southern class action

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
Thousands of investors are anticipated to come forward in the class action against failed agribusiness, Great Southern Managed Investment Schemes. Already some 2,000 investors are part of the case, which returns to court on May 27 seeking further documents ...

Equity and commodity alignment

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
... but nothing like as close as they will be in May this year." But nah! Wall Street had been behaving this way since late April (if memory serves me right). It went up with commodity prices and down alongside commodity price falls. To be fair, this positive ...