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Wall Street v Main Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2010
It's still the economy stupid! Wall Street's attention had been diverted from watching and dissecting every piece of economic news to listening to words that comes out of politicians' mouths. Wall Street had been on edged ever since Obama and the Democrats ...

Now that's challenging

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2010
We knew 2010 would be challenging, but not this way. Not like this. Yes Virginia, we agreed that 2010 would be challenging. We thought it would be challenging because America would experience turtle-paced economic growth at best. We thought it would ...

ADHD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
Going nowhere fast. This is what the Dow did over the past two days. The Dow Jones Industrial Index dropped 122 points - the biggest since mid-December - after rallying by 116 points the day before. The Dow closed at a 15-month high on speculation that ...

Japanese history lesson

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2010
Better late then never. Belated 20th anniversary greetings to the Japanese stock market! But I sincerely doubt whether Mr. and Mrs. Watanabe will be in the mood for celebrations - the exact same mood they felt during the first anniversary, the second ...

Bonds need a double dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2010
It cannot be denied that risk assets trounced defensive ones in 2009 - and by a long shot - as investor optimism surrounding the global recovery gathered pace. But as 2009 became 2010, investors seemed not too sure. Suddenly investors are not so sure ...

Stimulexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2010
Get shorty! Equity markets, commodity markets, corporate bond markets and all other riskier asset markets continue to extend their gains early in 2010. But somehow, the uptrend does not look as convincing as last year's rally. Are markets psyching themselves ...

Australians all let us rejoice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2010
"Eat my shorts!" (Bart Simpson). Those who continue to hold a dim view of the Australian economy are fast dwindling. More have fallen by the wayside yesterday after the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released another "beautiful set of numbers." ...

Good For China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2010
China is proving true to the words uttered by US President John F. Kennedy half a century earlier. In a speech in Indianapolis delivered on 12 April 1959, JFK said that, "When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents ...

Juice flow to continue in 2010

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2010
Happy New Year! The year 2009 is now a memory but a happy one at that. It was the year when bear calls were dismissed and risk-taking paid off - handsomely. Could we expect more of the same this year? Can equity markets, commodity markets and other ...

The I word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2009
Yes, it's back - the 'I' word that is. With the many letters being thrown around to describe the global recovery these days, you must be wondering what this letter 'I' stands for. 'I' stands for inflation. The fear of its return spooked Wall Street ...