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Missing the forest for the trees

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2013
... Stocks Fall as Energy, Financials Tumble on Economy," says Bloomberg. "Stocks slide on North Korea fears, Fed comments," was CNN Money's take. "Fall sharply", "Tumble", "Slide". Given the headlines of that day - the US slowing at the same time that the ...

Kim playing Duke Nukem is the bigger worry

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2013
... on Economy," says Bloomberg. And just so we have everything covered, "Stocks slide on North Korea fears, Fed comments," was CNN Money's take on last night's happenings. Sell and drown yourself in a well, that's what the headlines tell. And this, all ...

Fed sorted easy, now for the ceiling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2013
... higher tax rates on high-income households, the CBO estimates growth will be curtailed by a total of 1.5 percentage points." -CNN Money Scary stuff 'ey? But it's precisely because it's so scary and downright gloomy that both sides of the US political ...

Smart investors buy productive assets: Buffett

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2012
... their clients only make money if they buy assets that go up in value and avoid assets that don't. Writing an opinion piece for CNN Money magazine, Buffett, regarded as a leader among the world's most astute and successful long term strategic investors ...

Second best month of the year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2011
... chosen to sit where Silvio's bum formerly was. And get this, even PIMCO's CEO, the bear-friendly Mohamed El Arian, told a CNN interview that, "... it's not too late to solve" the European sovereign debt dilemma. And US consumers look to be turning jolly ...

Buy the headline, sell the headline

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2011
... within two years. But while this remains a matter of hope - and faith - two headlines don't leave anything to interpretation. CNN Money's "Buffett goes on $20 billion stock buying spree" and Bloomberg's "Buffett Broadens Portfolio by Investing $23.9B". ...

We're still in Kansas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2009
... see the experience of the Great Depression repeated under his watch. Not when as President Obama stated in an interview with CNN, "I think we'll be adding jobs, but you need 150,000 additional jobs each month just to keep pace with a growing population. ...

Main Street versus Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2009
... bonuses. Some of them pocketed the money...and left anyway. It is not a surprise then, as Bloomberg reports, that a poll by CNN and Opinion Research Corp revealed 41 per cent of Americans think the US government should leave distressed lenders to die ...

Committed to Asia: Fidelity

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUL 2006
... equity investors, with their savings finding their way into the markets as local confidence climbs. Guest speaker, former CNN Asia correspondent and consultant on Korean security for Pacific Council, Mike Chinoy, admitted that China is struggling to ...
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