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Someone mentioned the "S-word" on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014

Because I'm happy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
... interest rates low for, perhaps, a considerably greater "considerable time" after it finishes tapering. US retail sales grew by nada in July (the worse in six months) versus market expectations for a 0.2% pick up and June's disappointing 0.2% rise. Core ...

Bubbling bubble?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014
... day left to go, seems like Q1 would end... nowhere. There were some fresh data out of the US overnight but they provided nada direction for Wall Street. The third estimate of US real GDP growth was revised higher from an annual rate of 2.4% previously ...

If not now, when?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012
... talking). There weren't any of those hoped for stimulants to make economies run faster, lift stronger and jump higher. Nil, nada, zilch. And so we find ourselves "back where we were before. Seems nothing ever changes, we're back to being strangers. Wondering ...

Enough of Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2012
... prizes for guessing, it's because of all the austerity measures they've implemented. And what have they got to show for it? Nada, zilch! In fact, according to the Wall Street Journal, "Greece's budget deficit for the first nine months of 2011 widened ...

Machines of loving grace

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2011
... we don't get earth-shattering news. And that's exactly what we got from the US Federal Reserve last night - much ado about nada. No change in the fed funds rate. They did promise to keep this on ice until 2013 two FOMC meetings prior. "The Committee ...

Let's party!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2011
... the bond purchase programme and/or raising interest rates, there were no dissenters in last night's FOMC vote - zilch, nil, nada. Kansas City Fed President Thomas Hoenig had objected at every FOMC meeting since 2010 over the central bank's easy policy ...

Me too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 NOV 2010
... little Aussieland! Oh yes, if you believe what you read in the financial press. But look closely. Have you noticed that none, nada, zero, talked about the annual growth rate. Of course, they won't. Here's why. Because year over year growth would remain ...

Awakening from summer slumber

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 NOV 2010
... relegated till the next European debt scare when financial markets (or should I say the bears in the financial markets) have nada to justify their gloom. That China's tightened many, many times before and yet... its economic growth persists not perished. ...

Good newer news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2010
... shaping. There was none of that last night. Nothing from the bears when they saw the latest ISM non-manufacturing survey - nada, for what they saw was undeniably good. The ISM non-manufacturing index "increased" to 54.3 in July from 53.8 the previous ...