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Good jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2011
The sun is shining, the sky is blue and everything is fine except... it's not fine enough. Wall Street was so sure heading into the February US non-farm payrolls report that the data will confirm improving labour market conditions in America. All the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 FEB 2011
The Australian market is receiving positive leads from offshore trading overnight. All key Wall St indices are higher in late trading. European markets also were higher overnight, as were precious metals. Copper was down slightly, and oil continued ...

Cycling up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 FEB 2011
It's good in so far as it's bad. For those like me who logged on over the weekend hoping to glean clarity on America's future, the latest non-farm payrolls report outing provided none. Yes, Virginia, both the bulls and the bears would be claiming, "I ...

Chimerica threat looms over returns

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 FEB 2011
A leading fund manager argues that many investors are too pessimistic about the US and too optimistic about other markets, particularly China. Speaking at a lunch briefing yesterday, Martin Conlon, head of Australian equities at Schroder Investment ...

Whac-a-mole 2.0

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
Whac-a-mole 2.0! Remember whac-a-mole 1.0 when the global financial crisis was just starting? It was then, that the air was ripe with speculation as to which financial institution's head - Bear Sterns, Fannie/Freddie, AIG - the US Fed/Treasury tandem ...

What ifs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2010
It's Veterans Day holiday in the United States - a day celebrating the signing of the Armistice that brought World War I to its formal end. And as the world celebrated the end of the first world war that happened nine decades and two years ago, the ...

Healing US, crouching Europe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 NOV 2010
There just ain't no pleasing Mr. Market. No siree! The biggest and most powerful central bank in the world gave them lots and lots of play money to play with and now... this is all we get. Wall Street stalled despite last week's news that the US Federal ...

Smaller QE2 is not all that bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2010
Whoa boy! Hold your horses! QE2 expectations are going out of hand. It started with just over a couple of billions and then grew, and grew, and grew. Just two days ago, I wrote about St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank Director of Research Christopher Waller ...

Happy days

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2010
Three cheers for September! Hip, hip! Where's the September curse everybody and his dog were warning about at the onset of the seventh moon of the year? Thirteen days into this "most awful month" for stocks and so far Wall Street has advanced in eight ...

Good jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 SEP 2010
"Girl on a swing, swing high Girl on a swing, swing low... She comes with the light Then goes with the night..." Gerry & the Pacemakers must be looking into Wall Street 2010 when they sang this tune back in 1966. "Girl on a swing, swing high." The S&P ...