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Stress test stress

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2010
Look ma, I passed the test! Hip, hip... Eighty-four European banks received their certificate of financial health from the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) over the weekend. They'll survive a recession and a sovereign debt crisis if ...

Unusually certain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUL 2010
There you go. I guess the economic outlook does not "remain unusually uncertain" now. This is if you believed yesterday's headlines that the cause of Wall Street's fall the previous day was because of Ben Bernanke's statement that, "the economic outlook ...

Wall Street takes a dive

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2010
Just as Queensland boxer Paul Briggs gave up too easily after Danny Green grazed his forehead 29 seconds in the first round of their IBO cruiserweight world title showdown last night, so it was for Wall Street. No Virginia, it didn't take as short as ...

Half-filled

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUL 2010
Another set of dismal data again failed to get Wall Street down last night. Big-named US companies that reported their second quarter results overnight came up short of expectations and worse, some even downgraded their earnings guidance. Data out on ...

Been there, done that

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2010
Wall Street's weekend may have done it some good. It left pondering the tug o' war between good company profit results and negative economic data. The Street didn't like what it saw. Investors sold... heavily. Wall Street returned last night, still ...

Contra confidence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2010
Did anyone hear that loud thud on Wall Street over the weekend? So what do we do now? Are we back on track for very slow growth - at worst, a double-dip -- and all the sinister consequences it'll have on our combined and individual fortunes? The Street ...

Saved by BP and Goldman

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2010
Oil spill? Checked. Lawsuit? Checked. The resolution of these two uncertainties powered Wall Street into a positive close after spending most its trading day worrying about weak economic data at home. Oil spill plugged. BP shares surged by 7.6 per cent ...

Pause

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUL 2010
h no! Wall Street has run out of puff. Wall Street ended flat overnight after seesawing for much of the trading day. In case you start getting an attack from the jitterbug once again, have no fear... nothing much has really changed. After six days of ...

Looking good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUL 2010
With Wall Street's attention turned to profits, profits and profits - and strong ones at that - the celebration in the equity markets rolls. The Street turned in another strong performance while we were sleeping - and so did Europe. A reaction from ...

Let the reporting season begin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2010
So this is what the markets are like when news go away! Wall Street was a little bit up, so was Europe. Asian equities hopped a tad and Australian shares skipped a beat higher yesterday. Flat was the day in the life of equities markets across the globe ...