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Oil at US$300

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2011
Wall Street rebounds as oil pressure dips. This is the overall theme that you'll read, hear and watch on financial services this day. It's the mirror image of the previous day's "Wall Street dips as oil pressure bounds" theme, or days when The Street ...

Greeks, chips and slicks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2011
... the oil price could not be ruled out. It looks far-fetched given today's headlines, but did anybody see the Jasmine Revolution coming until it's bitten Tunisia and Egypt's presidents in the bum?

Tomorrow comes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
Investors may love Wall Street more today than yesterday... but not as much as tomorrow. This was the conclusion you read on this space yesterday. And boy, investors surely loved much more today (yesterday's tomorrow). But lest I get accused on insider ...

Three and a half men

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2011
Wall Street welcomed March with a big drop with the three major indices down about 1.5 per cent on the day. Oh boy, here we go again. News services were all over the place blaming the renewed spike in crude. Oil spiked - again! - because of reports ...

Buy a toaster

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2011
"Do I feel lucky?" Well do ya, punk?" -Dirty Harry Certainly that punk Queen Qaddafi is not feeling lucky. So is Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman (that other oil producer) -- the Jasmine Revolutionaries are now marching in his Kingdom. Their subjects ...

Queen Qaddafi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
... trades off the table because -- as sensationalised by many talking heads and those with literary licenses - the Jasmine Revolution currently doing its tour in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region would send oil prices soaring and derail the ...

Desert storm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
... therefore perfectly sane for financial markets to seek cover in defensive assets until the desert storm passes. The Jasmine Revolution did not stop in Tunisia and Eqypt... chances are it won't also end in Libya. But in the event that crude oil prices ...

Yakety yak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 FEB 2011
... cracked down on activists as a call circulated for people to gather in more than a dozen cities yesterday for a ''Jasmine Revolution''." Reports say that these so-called "Jasmine Revolution" had been sparked by corruption, high unemployment, and rising ...
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