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BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2010
Bohh...ring! And I woke up early for this! There were some after-party celebrations to the bull market's one-year anniversary - but only just. Wall Street closed higher -- Dow up 0.03 per cent, S&P 500 up 0.5 per cent and Nasdaq up 0.8 per cent. As ...

Happy birthday bull

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
Guess what? It's the bull market's first anniversary today! Hip..hip... Hooray Virgina! You and I have kept up the faith despite being battered by waves of doubters in an ocean of despair. It was exactly one year ago (9 March 2009) when Wall Street ...

Still a two-way street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2010
After all is said and done...more was said than done! Yes, you know what I'm referring to Virginia - the "big kahuna" of economic statistics that is the US non-farm payrolls report. Remember how we (note I use "we" when I'm mistaken and "I" to gloat ...

Still waiting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2010
New data, same message. Wall Street remains in the waiting room. Last night's economic updates really didn't do it for Wall Street as it continues to gnaw on its fingers waiting for tonight's delivery...of America's employment report. Most US retailers ...

Up, down, flat trading day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2010
Wall Street remains on system standby. You can reason one way or the other until you're blue in the face but the fact remains that there wasn't anything new in last night's data releases. It's the same old, same old mix of negatives and positives. Besides ...

While we wait for payrolls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2010
Whew! Thank goodness we got some reprieve from the avalanche of economic data released over the past few days. Wall Street closed flat to up overnight as it nervously awaits what the mother of all economic releases - the US Non-farm Payrolls report ...

La de da de da

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2010
"The beat goes on...la de da de da." (Cher) The beat of mixed data that is, but Wall Street is seeing the silver lining in the dark clouds this time. First stop and the most important for the US economy - the consumer. Their personal income rose by ...

Data data everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2010
Mondayitis. This and the flood of first-tier economic data set to be released later in the week will keep the Australian financial markets well, a bit out of sorts today. Friday night's performance on Wall Street was not telling enough to sway Australian ...

Trader's market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2010
What's the trouble with Wall Street? It can't seem to make its mind these past three days - down, up, down. US equity indices closed lower last night after rising the day before and falling before the day before. Just writing that sentence has gotten ...

Positive spin to bad news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2010
Analyse this! US home sales tumble big time as Wall Street rises. Yes Virginia, the past two days of trading activity on The Street exemplifies the equity market's wild and wacky psychology -- that's if you're watching the daily ups and downs. Yesterday ...