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Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Noi, noi, noi!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2015
... sea has survived (without a recession) major episodes of global upheaval such as the 1997/98 Asian financial crisis, the dotcom bust in 2000, September 11 and the US recession in 2001, and the Great Recession of 2008. Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) ...

September -- morn or mourn?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
... October to 5.5% in November 1994. But also note that the S&P 500's bullrun did not end until five years later when the dotcom bubble went bust in 2000. It went from 459.27 points in 1995 to a high of 1,500.59 - a 227% surge... and this despite the Fed ...

The "old economy" that is Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
... hasn't been in a recession since 1991 despite the "tequila crisis" of 1994; the "Asian financial crisis" of 1998, the "dotcom bust" in 2000 and the "global financial crisis" in 2008. Give me "old economy" anytime. Perhaps, this time is different because ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
... also set a new intraday record of 5,143.32, about 11 points more than the prior high set in March 2000, shortly before the dotcom crash. The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 180.10 points (1.00 per cent) to 18,115.84, while the broad-based S&P 500 ...

New kid on the block

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2015
... sidelines which... counter-intuitively makes it NOT a bubble (or at least, keep this bubble from popping). Think back to the dotcom days or more recently, the financial-engineered CDO's of not too long ago (even the Fed and the IMF and their dogs didn't ...

Tech stock tech stock (tick tock tick tock)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015

Heads up to where Wall Street's heading

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2014
... shouldn't he? And just have a read at "this time it's different" quotes Bloomberg compiled (thanks Bloomie) comparing the dotcom bubble to the now: ""If you look at the valuations then versus now, it's night and day," Walter Todd, who oversees about ...

Independence Day for the US economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
... milestone, the Russell 2000's also at a fresh high and the Nasdaq (though still about 11% away) is climbing steadily towards the dotcom high established in March 2000. Wall Street's jump was reportedly due to Independence Day for the US economy - that ...

So good but for the wrong spin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014
... away to new record highs. The Nasdaq closed strongly too (up 1.1%) but it still has about 12% to go before it breaches the dotcom bubble high of 5,048.62 points set 14 years before (10 March 2000). But, but...but perhaps not for the reasons a great many ...

What's luck got to do with it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2013