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Chumbawamba rules

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
... per Reuters, the country is "host to oil majors including BP, Chevron and ExxonMobil". Think what Putin could do if, like Crimea, he decides to annex this former state? It'll be another ace under his sleeve against the sanctions imposed by the "West". ...

Arrows and more arrows

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2014
... again tomorrow, you know. The point I make is that geo-political risk has never left since early March when Russia annexed Crimea or Syria before that (and now we have Iraq (again), Gaza (again) and Libya (again)), the headlines just chose to ignore ...

The scares that weren't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... remember this well, this was the time (mid-April) that Dr. Doom - aka Marc Faber - that a 1987-style crash cometh (yet again). Crimea and the sanctions imposed by the West' on Russia - and Russia's revenge (cutting off gas supplies to Europe) -- and ...

Forget shocks and stay the course: PM Capital

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014
... Emerging Asia Fund, said that concerns such as the uncertainty over China's economic data, or what is going to happen in the Crimea, are short lived and should not prompt long-term investors to retreat from their conviction positions or abandon a logical ...

Bubbling bubble?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014
... affecting affordability... or weather distorted?) Then there's the geo-political scene. Bloomberg's headline say it all, "Crimea Resolution Backed by U.S. Barely Gets UN Majority". But read through the report and instead of being concerned, you'll find ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014
The Australian market looks set to open lower after Wall Street fell with a sell-off in technology companies outweighing encouraging economic news. At 0807 AEDT on Friday, the June share price index futures contract was down four points at 5,341. Data ...

First quarter stasis and A$ ADHD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2014
... G-20's expressed commitment to lift global growth by 2% "over the next five years". (Though given recent happenings in Crimea, I'm not sure if Putin's still in this game. Russia's not been kicked out of the G-20... yet). And this month, we got pessimism ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2014
... Wall Street as Eastern Europe tensions escalate with Russian troops seizing Ukrainian ships and military installations in Crimea. At 0645 AEDT on Tuesday, the June share price index futures contract was down 25 points at 5,323. In local economic news ...

Whatever works

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2014
While Crimea's vote to secede from Ukraine and re-join Mother Russia - and the tit for tat sanctions between the US and Europe and Moscow - and speculation over the faster- and sooner-than-predicted US Federal Reserve hike in interest rates hogged most ...

The scares that weren't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
... knows that Putin's got the US and Europe by the cojones. Latest news out is that Ukraine is pulling its soldiers out of Crimea. Yup, it effectively ceded Crimea to Russia... and the financial markets simply ignored this. Nothing left but to enjoy our ...