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Wealth effect turns positive

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2009
Run three days straight or for nine days with only a day's pause and you too would need a bit of a rest. This is precisely what Wall Street did overnight -- it stopped for a break. In financial market jargon this is termed as "consolidation." The Dow ...

BOBisms

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2009
BOB has spoken and what financial markets heard was good. BOB, of course, stands for Bernanke, Obama and Buffet. But go back to yesterday's news and carefully read or listen to what the 'three wise men' uttered. Go on. Read again. Listen again. Was ...

Three wise men - maybe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2009
I am "buying stocks right as we speak" and am getting "a lot for my money," Warren Buffet told his audience at a California conference. The tone was similarly positive at the Brookings Institution in Washington, with US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben ...

Playing chicken with tyres

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2009
Don't look now but the debate as to what letter of the alphabet the global recovery will take - U, V or W - could all turn out to be wrong. It could be an L with the horizontal part of the letter longer and downward sloping. Trust politicians to try ...

Expect the unexpected

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2009
Caution removes caution. Just as the G-20 announced their caution in removing the fiscal and monetary crutch until the global economy is walking on its own, the word 'cautiously' in the 'cautiously optimistic' is fast disappearing in many an investment ...

Hermaphrodite economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2009
The more things change, the more they stay the same. There is very little to comment on today. The global economy is proceeding on course as many -if not most - expect. The current investment environment contains both plusses and minuses. Much like ...

Depends on the data

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2009
You know Australia is back to normal when "they will, they won't" speculation on interest rates returns a major sport. This is usually accompanied by "they will earlier, they will later" betting with every economic data release providing evidence for ...

Greenback weakness not all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2009
A global recovery is truly underway, risk appetites are being stoked, there is no more need for flight-to-quality bids. These are the reasons used to justify the sharp depreciation in the US dollar. The greenback fell to its lowest 2009 level against ...

Aussie dollar rises to restore equilibrium

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2009
Proceed at your own risk. Forecasting in quiet times is difficult. Forecasting during periods of uncertainty is even more difficult. Forecasting currency movements during periods of uncertainty is well...a mug's game. The recent surge in the Australian ...

G-20 reasons to be hopeful

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2009
A summit to have another summit. If anything, this was the consensus reached at the 4-5 September G-20 meeting in London whose finance ministers and central bankers continue to disagree to agree. But whereas the previous two meetings - November 2008 ...