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All together now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2008
It is just fitting that the world leaders from the Group of 20 nations decided to meet on 15 November 2008 to hatch their battle plans for ending the global financial crisis. For on this very same day in 1920, the League of Nations also held its first ...

G20 to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2008
Buying on news? Bargain-hunting? Attractive valuation? Crisis solved? Factor X? Whatever the reason, Wall Street see'd again when it should have saw'ed. US equities surged almost 7 per cent last night despite a plethora of more gloomy news. Below are ...

Bail-out Plan B

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2008
Has the US Treasury had a change of heart or merely trying to get on the good side of its boss-elect President Obama? The US$700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) will no longer buy the TA (troubled assets) under the RP (relief program). ...

The good oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2008
Just less than a year ago, households, businesses and financial markets were bracing for crude oil at US$200 a barrel. And in July 2008, this fear threatened to become a reality when crude oil prices topped US$147.27 a barrel in the international markets. ...

Sisyphian challenge

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2008
Like the mythical king Sisyphus, fiscal and monetary authorities continue to push a huge boulder up a hill only to watch it roll back down. But while Sisyphus rolled the same rock over and over, the global boulder authorities are trying to push over ...

Mine's bigger than yours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
Slashers. This is what most central banks around the world have become as their respective economies appear oblivious to the myriad of rescue packages and the amount of money that is already flooding the system. The dire straits the global economy is ...

Rainy days

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2008
Australian equities remained in the doldrums in spite of the hopeful promise that came about with the changing of the guards at the White House. Senator Barack Obama's triumphant victory in the US Presidential election was welcomed with jubilation the ...

Humpty Dumpty Syndrome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2008
And so it came to pass. The election of Barack Obama to the highest post in the biggest and most powerful economy of the world would forever be etched into the annals of history - not only in America, but also throughout the entire planet. It is just ...

The other race

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2008
Punters would have been better off putting their hard-earned dollar into the Melbourne Cup winner - Viewed -- yesterday than on the RBA rate cut expecting an equity market gain. Both provided a surprise outcome, but while Viewed returned A$46.50 to ...

October mourn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2008
Financial market trading activity in October ended as it began - with so much volatility. Investors' consensus interpretation of economic reports, government announcements and central bank decisions determined entry and exit into equities, currencies ...