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Danger everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 DEC 2010
... points to 364 and Portugal climbed 4.5 basis points to 542.9, all record highs, according to CMA, a data provider." Danger in China, Will Robinson. In its bid to choke off inflation, Beijing might be strangling its economy to death. The Wall Street Journal ...

Me too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 NOV 2010
... overshadowed by unthankful happenings in Europe and Asia - the PIGS in Europe and the pig in North Korea. And of course, there's China's efforts to break inflations' back (which many read as a "substantial slowdown that would remove one of - of not the ...

China, Russia dump USD for bilateral trade

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 NOV 2010
China and Russia will cease using the US dollar as the basis of their intercountry trade in reaction to the greenback's instability and sliding relevance. "About trade settlement, we have decided to use our own currencies," Russian president Vladimir ...

Better than a Thanksgiving turkey

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 NOV 2010
... acceptance of the European Union/IMF bailout failed to allay investor fears because of the strings attached... around its neck. China is tightening policy and Chinese banks could no longer lend - there goes Chinese growth, there goes world growth. As ...

When everything went wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
... on-going FBI probe of hedge fund insider trading and worse-than-expected existing home sales report for October. At least China's still growing. Ahhh, but Mr. Market fears that there too, something is about to go wrong. According to Bloomberg, "China's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
... Court. On Tuesday, the Australian share market sank more than one per cent on fresh concerns over European sovereign debt and China's fiscal tightening on a day with few domestic economic indicators. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index lost 54.4 points, or ...

Fear and thanks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 NOV 2010
... around 1PM in NY. How could I get it so wrong? Fears should have subsided now that Ireland's agreed not to commit suicide? China concerns should have also eased after the National Development and Reform Commission - the state's top planning agency - ...

Chireland hurdled

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
What's seemingly wrong at the beginning of last week became whole again - maybe - by the close. Fears that China would impose measures to extract excess liquidity to bring down inflation came to pass - fears passed, Beijing passed tightening measures. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
... for Monday. On Friday, the Australian share market closed lower on Friday, as speculation of more interest rate rises in China dampened investor sentiment to risk. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index closed down 11.0 points, or 0.24 per cent, at 4,629.2 ...

Awakening from summer slumber

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 NOV 2010
... scare when financial markets (or should I say the bears in the financial markets) have nada to justify their gloom. That China's tightened many, many times before and yet... its economic growth persists not perished. It would not squeeze so much that ...