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Stay or stay away this May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2012
... Bloomberg, "Dow Rallies to Highest Level Since 2007... " The Dow closed on the up and up to 13,279.32 points while you, I and Irene were dreaming about Australian banks passing on the RBA's 50 basis point reduction in the official cash rate yesterday. ...

Dickens on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2012
... opposite, that it's the worst of times and we have nothing before us? But why wait for the Fed announcement? You, I and Irene already know what Big Benny and his colleagues have been thinking for some time now. Nothing before us (no more stimulus) if ...

No greed, no fear, no volume

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2012
... Boring! If there's one word to describe last week's financial market activity, this is it. Sure, sure Virginia. You, I and Irene began doubting the global growth outlook anew midweek last week - that it would be lower than expectations - following disappointing ...

Upside surprises to surprise on the upside

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2012
... financial markets suffered an attack of the jitters as all things dark and gloomy flashed before their eyes. You, I and Irene remember that day oh so well. The day there was a collective recollection of the prospect of a Greek default, the European recession ...

Wen Confucius meets Sun Tzu

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2012
... development over a longer period of time". What's spooky about that? What's wrong about that? Isn't this what you, I and Irene have been clamouring about all along? That China stops sprinting and just paces itself. That it shifts its reliance from exports ...

Problem solved, not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2012
... safeguard eurozone financial stability. And, the details of the bailout package was, on the whole, exactly what you, I and Irene expected it would be - a,-130 bil in exchange for austerity measures. There were no big surprises - none at all. So why have ...

Insult me, insult you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2012
... to help Greece... we can help but we are not going to pour money into a bottomless pit." Bottomless pit. Yeah, I, me and Irene know that, but you don't have to say it out loud and to the Greeks' face. "Let him who has no sin..." (John 8:7). For your ...

Waiting for the RBA to dance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2012
... other passing on a rate hike, and then some) - an RBA rate cut today wouldn't make much of a difference on how you, I and Irene see our 2012 future. And if the international environment progresses as it should, it'll be one good year of the dragon of ...

Waiting for jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012
... numbers come in better or worse than consensus expectations. No one could argue that this is prudent move. But if you, I and Irene are gonna sit around for the rest of the year - unable to move until we see what the actual stats reveal, we might just ...

Not so wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
... are reports that could testify that, indeed, the outlook is worsening and that it would not end up well for you and I and Irene. Close to home, there's the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) report that the economy lost 29,300 jobs in December ...