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Contagion has already happened

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2010
Darn! Should have bought instead of sold yesterday! This will be that all too familiar refrain from many market pundits who got swept away from the sensationalisation of the Greece. Worse, others -- like US Marines -- just followed the crowd. As in ...

Knee-jerk reaction to late action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2010
Here we go again! The rough and tumble of Wall Street on display as investors knee-jerkingly reacts to what is -- in the words of Donald Rumsfeld - a "known known." The problem that just won't go away; like an irritating fly in the midst of an Australian ...

Seek and thou shalt find

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2010
What's wrong with Wall Street this time? There must be something in the water when solid corporate earnings result still gets it down. According to Bloomberg, more than 80 per cent of companies in the S&P 500 that have already reported their first quarter ...

Liar

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2010
"Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive." - Sir Walter Scott (Marmion, 1808) Greece has just climb 10 notches up crap creek when Eurostat - the European Union's official Statistician - called it a liar. Eurostat revealed last ...

Rules, rules, rules

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2010
Do you know what Moses did when God handed him the Ten Commandments? He squatted beside the burning bush, placed both hands on his face and cried, "Rules, rules, rules... too many rules!" But unlike Moses, America's biggest banks are not squatting and ...

America's Eyjafjallajokull

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2010
While Eyjafjallajokull continues to spew ash, there may be a heavier fall-out when Goldman Sach's volcano explodes. Wall Street rose last night as companies reported better than expected earnings results. And guess which one stood out? Goldman Sachs! ...

Grass is greener in China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 APR 2010
Green, green grass of China. America must be seething with envy that despite signs of continued improvement in its own economy, the grass is still greener in China. While the US remains unsure whether or not it's already out of the woods -- just ask ...

Wall Street beauties

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2010
What's better than the Dow passing 11,000 and the S&P 500 jumping beyond 1,200? When they're backed by fundamentals and not wishful skips in the dark. Yes ladies and gents, although I warned yesterday that Wall Street's uptrend could run out of steam ...

The retaking of Dow 11000

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2010
Here we go, here we go, here we go-o! The Dow has retaken the 11K ground anew! Dow 36,000 here we come! Yes Virginia, by virtue of a miniscule 0.1 per cent gain overnight, the Dow has once again crossed beyond that ever-elusive 11,000 milestone to close ...

Business cycle dating

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2010
Is it over or isn't it? Has the fat lady already sung the swan song of the US recession? Financial markets are all a-buzz with this question after the New York Times carried a story about the 8 April meeting by the National Bureau of Economic Research ...