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Grexit nears, markets cheer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
... index increased by 0.65% -- after Friday (minus 0.9%) and Monday's (minus 1.6%) big falls. It created "buying opportunities". Duh! Here's Reuters take: "European shares recovered in late trading and ended higher on Tuesday after hitting a four-month ...

All that jazz, all nonsense

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2014
... Co. and Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd. are reportedly also among those who moved their guesses forward. To this I say, duh! Last time I looked, consensus expectations had always been for the first rate hike to happen in the third quarter of next year... ...

Nothing's good enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2014
... What's wrong with that? Isn't the raison d'etre of businesses investing is so businesses could produce and sell those produce? Duh!... and businesses (mainly miners) are selling their produce... and we all know most of 'em are headed to China. China's ...

So bad it's good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2014
... the meisters agreeing with me?). Wall Street rebounded overnight because... investors anticipate a rosier second quarter. Duh! With growth like this (er, contraction), there's no reason to expect anything else but a spring back in spring. (There's also ...

A$ rising on China slowing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2014
... write on this space only yesterday. And, "We expect Beijing to launch a series of policy measures to stabilize growth..." Duh! Beijing might do more... but they've already begun. Beijing's depreciating the yuan - in the name of currency liberalisation ...

Feds speak Fedspeak yet again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2013

There is fear in the market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 OCT 2013

Bears out a-haunting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013
... failure to promptly raise the debt ceiling, leading to a US selective default, could seriously damage the global economy". Duh! Do they take the adults in Washington as fools? They may be stupid holding their country and the world hostage with their ...

Shutdown with an i

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2013

The day the music died

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
... fallen two-days in a row and by an earth-shattering total of 1.1% because markets are so sure that the Fed will unwind soon. Duh! And double duh to last night's commentaries which go along the lines of "Wall Street down because of QE tapering coming ...