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BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
See my finger? Yes, the middle one. No. The statement is not to gloat about Wall Street's overnight jump proving my call for a continuation of the equity market uptrend correct. Speaking of which, America's major stock market indexes jumped 2 per cent ...

Up, Down, Flat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2009
So which is it? Increased, decreased, steady? What did Wall Street really do overnight? The answer is, it depends. It depends on which US stock market average you are looking at. Look at the Dow Jones Industrial Index and you could conclude that the ...

Refreshing pause

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
Sellers...you've been warned. Given the magnitude of yesterday's decline on Wall Street, it was almost inevitable that stocks in Australia and the Asian region would succumb to gravity. Pause that refreshes. Overnight action on the Street confirmed ...

Sellers beware

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2009
Be scared...be very scared. Yes, the spooks were out again overnight, sending many investors out of Wall Street. Have the bulls been sucked in? Have the bulls become greater fools? While we were sleeping, the S&P 500 tumbled by 3.1 per cent, taking ...

Future lies in present

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2009
Have we? Haven't we? Left bottom that is. Or is the taxpayer's impatience to get their money back and authorities' over zealousness to erect new 'thou shall not' signs to police financial institutions taking us back to that dark place we left back in ...

No protection in protectionism

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2009
Those who kept the faith shall reap a bountiful harvest. Increased volatility and weaker equity market performance of the past three days have tested the conviction of some investors. Wall Street ended three consecutive days of losses overnight following ...

Threat of Lehmannisation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2009
Not as good as it got before. Wall Street ended last week's activity with a performance you wouldn't write home to your mother about. So did equity markets in Europe. But Asian markets were strong. Is decoupling back? Looking at last week's stock market ...

Spin-a-win

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2009
Big yawn! Overnight news out of Wall Street provided little fresh direction, just a continuation of the recent trend we have seen so far - that is, anyone could choose any number from last night's stats and spin it both ways. Bull spin. US consumers ...

Slippery - watch your step

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2009
So much money has to go somewhere. With almost all governments and central banks of the world pumping liquidity into the financial system, it comes as no surprise that some have flowed into commodities. Along with the rally in the equity markets, the ...

Fully sick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2009
PAID! Ten big American banks will get this stamp on their TARP loans after the US Treasury approved their repayment of a combined US$68 billion of taxpayers' money. No names were mentioned on which banks are queuing up at the Treasury cashier to pay. ...