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The end is not nigh

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2012
... the day they, themselves, realise that's what they want to do. But where does this leave you, I and Irene in the meantime? Guess, we'll have to stay out of Europe while we wait for Europe to sort itself out. You don't want to be left holding euros if ...

Scare me not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2012
Hang on to your hats folks, cause here we go again. Back to extrapolating current gloom into doom and forgetting that these were exactly the ones that provided good entry points in the markets. The scaredy cats are running for the hills again. Want ...

You beauty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2012
Looks like desperation did something nice to Wayne's budgeting prowess - digging deep, Australia's Federal Treasurer was able to pull something out of the hat, enabling the government to return the "budget to surplus on time and as promised". While ...

Fearing the unknown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2012
... Will only the letter C remain in the word pact and P replaced with F, U substituted for A and the letter T changed to K? Guess we just have to wait and see. Wait to see whether it'll be pro-austerity Frau Angela - her voters demand it and she's going ...

Yes, no, I don't know

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012
... both groups said they were keeping an eye on events in Congress and on the outcome of the upcoming presidential election." Guess we all have to wait until later tonight when the US non-farm payrolls report to put us out of our misery - so we could see ...

Mexican standoff

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2012

Instant replay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2012
Instant replay. What we've seen last week seemed to be a replay of the general theme that has been playing at computer screens near us for some time now. There's the ever-simmering European sovereign debt crisis that creates tension in the financial ...

What price surplus?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2012
Whose fault is it anyway? New Greens leader Christine Milne has barely warmed the seat Bob Brown vacated last week and she's already off to a firing start. Don't blame Julia and Swan (and the Greens?), they've been locked in into delivering the "promised" ...

No QE, not bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2012
Guess we're no longer BFF (best friends forever) with Ben. No sir, not after he quashed everyone's hopes that QE the third is about to sail. How could you do this to us BFF? It's all over the headlines: "U.S. Stocks Fall as Fed Minutes Damp Stimulus ...

Can't fix what's not broken, yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2012
It's that time of the month again folks - the time when we try to second guess what the Reserve Bank of Australia will do to interest rates. Will they? Won't they? Cut interest rates, that is. They will, then again perhaps they won't. Yes, Virginia ...