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First of three (or more) coming next week

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2017
... re-imposing the "travel ban" on six countries (formerly seven) -- Yemen, Libya, Iran, Somalia, Syria and Sudan (now excludes Iraq) show Trump's determination to follow through on his promises. Trump's reflationary policies and the equity market's positive ...

Trump's tweets and deeds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2017
... deeds. Everybody and their dogs would recall Trump's executive order barring the citizens of seven Muslim countries - Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen - from US soil for the next 90 days and the suspension of admission of all refugees ...

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BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2017
Yes people, we are now staring at Dow 20,000! For sure, the Dow as an equity market measure is flawed and that in terms of market and economic fundamentals, this means diddly-squat. However, in the world of technical analysts, this is the mark where ...

Drown baby, drown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2016
Where have all the buyers gone? Two weeks into the new year and they're still MIA. Given recent events, they appear to be drowning - drowning in a sea of oil, that is....and there'll be more gushing out of the grounds soon, out of Iran as Friday's speculations ...

Oil slip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2015
No more quotas. No more targets. No more ceilings. This was OPEC's (Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries) decision at their meeting in Vienna last Friday - the decision that sent oil prices down to 6-year lows. WTI oil dropped by 5.8% to US$37.65 ...

The Grinch is stealing Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2014
... excess crude supply, the largest oil producer -- Saudi Arabia - is engaging in outright price discounting, and on top of this, Iraq - the second biggest producer - has followed suit. This is compounded by indications that global demand would remain subdued ...

Sliding oil price would stop the slide in the oil price

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
... conflicting interests inside OPEC arise from the differences in its members' oil industries and economies. Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait and other Gulf producers can extract oil cheaply. They also -- Iraq excepted -- have a lot of cash in the bank. As a ...

The good oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2014
... 93.8 million bpd in September. Also according to the IEA, "Brent prices have fallen by over 20% since June, when turmoil in Iraq lifted prices to $116/bbl". Ahh, I remember that... that was the time - 13 June 2014 to be precise -- Bloomberg headlined ...

Are we there yet?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2014
... discourages business and consumer spending) plus the geo-political troubles at the eurozone's doorstep - Putin tit-for-tat, Syria, Iraq, Ebola - plus tighter fiscal budgets equals, more weakness. We've also been warning - you and I, Virginia - about ...

Nikko AM ups weighting to global shares

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
... consensus, but it does not appear to be headed for a hard landing, the committee believes. It also said problems in Ukraine and Iraq are not likely to escalate dramatically. While investors have begun to doubt whether reform measures in Japan are going ...