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Japan's 1997 deja vu

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
... them Board to do nothing while they continue to observe the effects of the consumption tax hike. But even if they do, methinks the rush implementation of yet another consumption tax hike - to reduce the deficit and the debt -- has changed the country's ...

Trend - up, down or up and down?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014
... growth trend, but not strong enough to push the Fed to bring forward interest rate hikes... or so the headlines say. Methinks the overriding theme here is "heightened" uncertainty. The trend maybe our friend on Wall Street, but that's only if we know ...

Prescriptions galore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014

Punishing Putin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2014
... Bloomberg reports that, "The U.K. said it won't send government ministers to watch the Paralympics." Vladimir being Putin, methinks it'll take more than "oh you won't be in our exclusive club anymore" and "nobody would be watching your Paralympics" to ...

Catching the big wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2014
... perfectly rational rationale... but that's if you're just looking at the next trading day, week, month or even year. Methinks China has a longer-term plan than what its latest move suggests. And that plan is to give the greenback a run for its money ...

Down, down, A$ stay down (please?)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2013

Victim of success

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2013
... months but that seems to have distracted some observers from seeing the positive developments across the Atlantic; though methinks Europe likes it that way - the lesser markets scrutinise the happenings there, the calmer their financials are. This, in ...

Impasse ends when Wall Street says stop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013

Everybody loves a dove

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2013

Let 'em rip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2013