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Trend - up, down or up and down?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014
And a bounce, bounce here and a bounce, bounce there, everywhere a bounce, bounce. This, Virginia, was what Wall Street did overnight - it was up, then down, the back up again... all in a day's trade. It was up on good first quarter earnings reports ...

Bouncy bouncy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014
... http://www.financialstandard.com.au/news/view/39397281 Thank you, thank you, thank you. I'm so grateful this morning Virginia, because data and news reports out overnight provided almost immediate proof of: improving US fundamentals and; central banks' ...

A 1987-style crash cometh (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2014
... bigger pop just as the TMT (telecoms, media, technology) issues did back in 2000... any moment now. And right on cue Virginia, we get the biggest Johnny Little of 'em all, Dr. Marc Faber warning you, I and Irene that, "I think it's very likely that we're ...

Australian budget to blow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
... again, up 1.7%. But this was - more or less - how we saw it when the Fed released its statement last 19 March, didn't we Virginia? You know, that day the music (temporarily) died on Wall Street when they heard Janet Yellen say, "you know" blah, blah ...

BOE has a problem to smile about

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
... International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicted -- only last night - to be the fastest growing among the G7 this year. Yes Virginia, the IMF sees the UK expanding by 2.9% in 2014 and by 2.5% in 2015 and... if you look at 2012's growth of 0.3% and 2013's ...

Front-runners

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
In big picture terms, not much happened last week. Yes Virginia, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept policy unchanged - as expected. The European Central Bank (ECB) guided forward but also stayed on the sidelines. US non-farm payrolls added another ...

Considerable time to eliminate considerable slack

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
A change of noun is all it took. Yes Virginia, by just changing the noun that followed the word "considerable", Fed Chair Janet Yellen put the smile back on many a-Wall Streeter's faces. Less than two weeks ago, Janet explained the considerable "time" ...

First quarter stasis and A$ ADHD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2014
... thought, picking the equity market is tough... say a little prayer for those who earn their dough trading real doughs. Yes Virginia, it's splashed all over the front pages today. The Australian dollar has climbed to a four-month high (and rising?). The ...

BRICs without BRI

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014
... that their grouping would eventually supplant the Group of 7 (G7) as the richest countries in the world. You guessed it Virginia, these are the BRICs - the economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China. They were all the rage back then, back when they ...

A$ rising on China slowing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2014
Uh-oh, Governor Glen Stevens won't be a happy little Vegemite this morning. No Virginia... not with headlines proclaiming the Australian dollar's comeback - as in, it's again on the rise against the US dollar. My Bloomberg screen shows the A$ fetched ...