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Running on neutral

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
Move on people, nothing to see here today. Go away and enjoy a long lunch or plant a tree. This applies to equity markets seeking direction from overnight activity on Wall Street. The Dow Jones Industrial index weaved and bobbed through intra-day trade ...

Tech stock tech stock (tick tock tick tock)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015

Cheap talk, cheaper money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
They talk the talk but aren't walking the talk. This is what I walk out with after poring through the American Association of Individual Investors' (AAII) sentiment and asset allocation surveys conducted in the last week of March. In its 2 April report ...

Currency warriors, mount horses and draw swords

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015
"US Stocks Climb as Oil Gains, Pfizer Rises on Hospira Purchase" This was Bloomberg's take on the whys and the wherefores for the S&P 500 index's 1.0% rebound overnight after slipping by 0.4% the day before that was prompted by a 9% plunge in oil prices ...

Bullish sentiment at 4-year high, expect zero return in six months

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014
So far so good. The men and women of the US Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) must be giving each other high fives (and down lows) at their success. In spite of the daily ups and downs, it appears to they've been able to wean Wall Street off of QE ...

QEnd

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2014
"And now, the end is near; And so I face the final curtain." - My Way That, Virginia, is QE doing its rendition of Frankie ol' blue eyes Sinatra's ol' time classic. Barring a very nasty - just nasty won't cut it - surprise, the Fed will be announcing ...

Janet's Jackson

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014
"Ain't no value high enough, ain't no Putin tough enough, ain't no ISIS mad enough" to keep investors away from Wall Street and... Yes I know it's a double negative (but that's how the song goes and you know what it means) but more importantly, you ...

Korean military fund puts $40m in Aussie infrastructure

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2014
... Australian Infrastructure investment opportunities through their investment in TIF." The Infrastructure Fund unit holders are AAI Limited, Australian Catholic Super and Retirement Fund, AustSafe Super, BUSS(Q) Building Super, Cambooya, CIRT, Club Super ...

S&P 500: 22 corrections in 6 months

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014
A correction is looming... and soon! Right on schedule Virginia, we're again hearing calls for a dip, a fall, a stumble, a correction on Wall Street straight after both the S&P 500's and the Dow's climb to fresh record highs last week, yet again. How ...

Global healing?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
Yes, no, maybe... I don't know. It's another happy day for the stock markets, hoisted up by the news du jour of positive indications from the latest PMI survey readings. Yes. The Markit Economics index of US manufacturing rose to a flash reading of ...