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Mood change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2010
... jumped by 12.4 per cent in the year to May. There are speculations that this sector is heading - if not already - in a bubble. The Economist magazine doesn't think so. In a 27 May article, it printed that "Prices would have to fall a long way to push ...

Clime doubles cash holding

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
... currency and a strong economy. The portfolio also invests in BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, despite murmurings of a Chinese bubble. He said he would rather have a growth bubble, which China might be in, than a debt bubble, which many European countries ...

End game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2010
... is good for you China! And then there's James Rickards, former LTCM general counsel, saying that China "is the greatest bubble in history with the most massive misallocation of wealth... a bubble waiting to burst." Puh... lease. Does this dude still ...

Land of the free money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2010
... President Thomas Hoenig dissented over the use of the phrase "extended period" because it could lead to an asset price bubble - if not already. Overall, the Fed is telling financial markets that you'll continue to get cheap (free?) money to bolster your ...

Tale of two extremes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2010
... week of March - history offered exactly the opposite lesson. That is, to sell, sell, sell. I speak of course of the dotcom bubble of the late 1990s. In contrasts to the extreme investor pessimism that characterised the mood heading into the 9 March 2009 ...

Change of heart

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2010
... an intra-day low of US$0.8228 in October 2000. Whatever the reason - whether it is because of the bursting of the dotcom bubble in 2000 or greater acceptance of the euro as a currency or the fixing of teething problems of unification - the euro has continued ...

Gold's dimming lustre

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2010
... in recent days. Perhaps the gold bears are correct and the gold bugs wrong -- that gold just experienced a speculative bubble and is now on the verge of deflating. Especially considering that the renewed uncertainty in the global economy and financial ...

RBA mixes its game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2010
... and housing that this underpinned. Australian house prices are rising sharply that there are now concerns of a developing bubble. The RBA knows this, " Public infrastructure spending is now boosting demand, as is an upturn in housing construction. Investment ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
Australian shares are likely to open lower after global equity markets and commodities slumped overnight on concerns that the economic recovery will take longer than hoped to take hold. At 0830 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price ...

Japanese history lesson

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2010
... originated from this Japanese stock market experience. Low interest rates and plenty and readily obtainable credit fuelled the bubble in Japan's equity and property markets 20 years ago. Cross shareholdings - listed Japanese companies bought and owned ...