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Those tight Aussies

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 NOV 2011
... infiltrate the boardroom discussions of some of the largest companies in the United States, with global food leader Campbell Soup the latest to bemoan the reluctance of Aussie shoppers to spend money, saying they were increasingly reflecting a "recessionary ...

USA no longer AAA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
... mortgage-backed securities debacle, when agencies bestowed AAA ratings on bonds backed subprime mortgages, as well as the alphabet soup of structured products (ABS, CDOs, CLOs, CDO-squareds) that were issued en masse banks during the credit bubble. Those ...

To spend or not to spend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2010
... 1930 Depression is just too painful to ignore. It is easy to ignore it now but think back to those days. Long lines at the soup kitchens, unemployment rate running at 25 per cent, and so on and so forth. The current fad towards fiscal austerity would ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2010
... growth. The market, which has climbed on upbeat economic signals, fluctuated in a narrow range after Lowe's Cos and Campbell Soup Co reported higher earnings but reminded investors a recovery among consumers is expected to be slow. Stocks drew some support ...

Boiling frog

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2009
... another day. But place the frog in a pot of cold water and turn the heat up gently. By the time the frog notices, it's frog soup. The economic 'frog' barely noticed that the RBA has turned up the heat another touch higher yesterday. It was distracted ...

Priced, but not for a V

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2009
... the colour of the market's outlook? All the good news has been priced in. Really? So why are we still debating the alphabet soup of recovery - L, U, V, W? But...but, the S&P 500 has rallied almost 50 per cent from its March lows? But my butt. This is ...

U V W X Y Z

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2009
What's this? We're back into discussing the alphabet soup of the coming recovery? Would the global economy's recovery take the shape of a V? Will it be a U or a W? My oh my Virginia, I'm getting tired and very ill with all these discussions. For me ...

No two ways about it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
Waiter, there's a fly in my soup. Financial markets stopped enjoying the tasty aroma of recovery in their soups last night after Standard & Poor's warned that it might downgrade the United Kingdom's AAA credit rating because of its widening budget deficit ...

Rated AAA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2009
... ratings. Especially when one letter - added, subtracted or changed - could mean a comfortable retirement or years in the soup lines. And also because ratings could become self-fulfilling as investors react to a credit score upgrade or downgrade. In the ...

Spring springs on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2009
... this, just imagine what could have been without these fiscal and monetary stimulus measures. What could have been would be soup for breakfast, lunch and dinner or worse, soup for breakfast, air for lunch and nothing for dinner. Investors will behave ...