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Greece what?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013
... Ben Bernanke's comforting words. In fact 'twas so good the Dow and the S&P 500 closed at fresh record highs overnight. So deym excellent that even Greece's stock market surged - the Athens SE General Index jumped by 1.71%. Oh pardon moi, it's such been ...

Peace, be still

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
... of June. Yes, that one -- the one that sent jitters down the spine of everyone and their dogs. The one I've been trying so deym hard to convince you gentle readers that the Fed would only unwind stimulus if it is safe...and it will be safe when the economic ...

Lookin' for trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 SEP 2012

Liars' Club

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2012
... elected prime minister of Australia. "There won't be a carbon tax in a government I lead" promised Julia Gillard. Liar, liar, deym liars. But do they care? It got them what they wanted did it not? Not then and certainly not now - now that bigger names ...

"If it becomes necessary" time?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2012
... The Dow closed 274.9 points on the day for a 6.2% loss for all of last week that erased all of its gains for the year 2012. Deym! Deym because it hasn't fallen further for that 274.9 point decline last Friday translates into a mere 2.2%. There could ...

Missed the bottom?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2012
... remains fragile that renewed risk aversion is just one twitter away. This, or I have completely missed buying another bottom. Deym.

Scare me not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2012
... financial markets have seemingly gotten over Merkozy's divorce and have started to accept that it would be "Merde" from here on (deym, markets didn't take to my Frangela), Greece has come back to haunt. If only they cut it loose last time, then we all ...

Thrilla in Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2012
... and wait till after 10AM Monday and cross our fingers that Itchy wins, not Scratchy and heaven forbid, Krusty the Clown. Deym, I think I watch too much of "The Simpson's". Who's Itchy and who's Scratchy, you decide? Oh, sorry the Labor Party factions ...

Another 'should have gone shopping' moment

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 OCT 2011
... financial market history as another 'damn, I should have gone shopping' moment. Johnny Nash's numero uno hit song of 1972 - deym, I'm old - came to mind as I was looking at the trend in several US statistics over the weekend. And what I saw were good ...

D-day deferred

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2011
... summit. "Nein" according to the Germans, "non" says the French, "ochi" for the Greeks, "ei" declared the Finns... and so on. Deym, they can't even agree on how to say the word "no". By inference, this means that European officials will hold tonight's ...