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Clear as crystal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
... It doesn't get any clearer than this! It's crystal! No more communications breakdown. No more failure to communicate. Big Ben Bernanke has delivered! While it's mostly a reiteration of the repeated message I've been telling you he's been telling us since ...

A prince, a princess or a frog?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013
... sometime this week) is unspinnable - it's either a Prince or a Princess. Not so for Bernanke. Subject to interpretation, Big Ben could also deliver a frog.

Designer slowdown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2013
... Brothers God bless the US of A indeed! After almost two months of skittishness, financial markets have seen the light of Big Ben's - and this little ben's interpretation - forward guidance on money policy. And this is that the timing, magnitude and pace ...

Ready for another take off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013
... weekly gain to zero. This is certainly within the realms of the probable and the possible. It dropped 1.4% on the day Big Ben talked about policy unwinding on the 19th of this month and by another 2.5% the following day as markets peered far into the ...

Oh how welcome thy voice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2013
... their hopes for QE infinity? Don't the better than expected stats only reinforce the Fed's tapering soon message? Recall Big Ben's message, "Our policy is in no way predetermined and will depend on the incoming data and the outlook. Our purchases are ...

Is it safe?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2013
... land...and visits by papa bear, mama bear and baby bear should be seen as opportunities to add to holdings. This is because the Big Ben - not this little Ben - himself, declared that tapering (and don't forget QE expansion) is data dependent. Data good ...

The great unwind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013
... to moderate the monthly pace of purchases later this year" only IF the Fed's optimistic outlook for the economy holds. Big Ben also told us to watch the data, did he not? Last night's disappointing US leading indicators and jobless claims data indicate ...

The Big Benny sings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2013
... to the prospect of scaled back stimulation. For the biggest, mightiest central bank in the world had been wrong before. Big Ben had been wrong before to be precise, many times before to be more precise. Unfortunately I can only fit two samples without ...

Yes, no, I don't know

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2013
It's now or never. Last chance to place your bets - check, raise or fold - before Big Ben Bernanke shows his hands. Gauging from Wall Street's back-to-back gains over the first two trading days of this week, it appears that the money is on Big Ben revealing ...

Fed speaks Fedspeak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
Old habits die hard it seems. Didn't US Federal Reserve Big Ben Bernanke already change the definition of Fedspeak to mean clarity of Fed communication of the Fed's intention on monetary policy a long time ago? The original meaning (according to Wikipedia) ...