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Good jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2011
... 2001. Counted 18 months (1.5 year) from when the US National Bureau of Economic Research declared the recession kaput. And guess what? After 18 months, US employment grew by only 0.56 per cent (year-on-year) in 18 months after the 1990/91 recession ended. ...

Yesterday today tomorrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2011
"Oh, I love you more today than yesterday." - Diana Ross Yesterday Wall Street dropped big time "on concern rising energy costs will threaten the economic recovery." This was Bloomberg's - and most other financial market commentators' -- interpretation ...

Queen Qaddafi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
... February 2011 started and continues to climb. It closed at US$114.34 last Friday. It's still moving on up, moving on up. Now, guess which measure the prophets of oil slick will pick. And if that doesn't do the trick, others are pooh-poohing others like ...

Levy disaster

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 JAN 2011

China no slow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 JAN 2011
"You're nothing without me A no one who'd go undefined You wouldn't exist You'd never be missed." US President Obama might have as well be singing these lyrics from the "City of Angels Musical" when, according to the Australian Financial Review, he ...

That sinking feeling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2010

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 DEC 2010
... outweighed a positive performance by banks in morning trade. "Definitely financials are performing well on the upside and, I guess on the flipside, you have got a little bit of profit-taking across materials," Mr Peacock said from Melbourne. "In the ...

Open fire roasted bears

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2010
... out of Asia, then Europe, then America... and boy, they were good. I'm happy that all my ruminations are coming to pass (guess, I'll have a good performance review after all - did someone mention pay rise?). If only this wasn't a daily piece, I would ...

ECB to QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 NOV 2010
... around the globe. But we've seen this all before. It happened in Latin America, it happened in Russia, it happened in Asia. Guess what? We're still here! If they - them that don't have the wherewithal to print money - survived, what more Europe? The ...

Whac-a-mole 2.0

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
... redux when debt problems first and Dubai and then Greece sparked another wave of pessimism in the financial markets?" I guess I got my answer. But all these rediscovered fears are due to Ireland not admitting that it has a problem. It's got enough to ...