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Spend, spend, spend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2013
... now so that others may be employed...and perhaps, we would care lesser about what happens to America and China. Start this Xmas season.

Calendar says buy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013
... bets this time around. Between 1 October and last night, the S&P 500 index is up by 2.5%. It's beginning to look a lot like Xmas. Never you mind that S&P Ratings Services calculates that the 16-day shutdown sliced 0.6% off US fourth quarter GDP growth ...

Wen again gets what Wen wants

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012
... Virginia. It's the greeting we hear (if I spelled it correctly) when the Chinese New Year comes around. For like Halloween and Xmas, it also appears to have come early. Sing Hallelujah! Sing it. Sing Hallelujah! (Dr. Alban) The world must be beaming ...

Jingling bells

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2012
... sleigh bells jinglin', ring ting tinglin' too" - Sleigh Ride There's really not much to add to what I've written yesterday -- Xmas must really be coming in early this year. Just look at all those wonderful set of numbers released over the past 24 hours. ...

Treats not threats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2012
... June. Financial markets were scared off their socks that not a few failed to notice indications that, just as Halloween, Xmas too may be coming in early. The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan index of US consumer sentiment soared to 83.1 in October ...

Worry me not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 NOV 2011
... be a very pleasant surprise if they surprise as with a concerted, concrete and prompt action plan on 9 December - an early Xmas present if you will. But if not, it won't help worrying. Just as Bob Marley sings, "In every life we have some trouble, when ...

Reverse contagion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2011
The Grinch may be stealing Xmas from Europe but Santa Claus is coming to town in America. Yes folks, we're still so many sleeps away from the 12 days of Christmas but I'm already on Christmas countdown - I'll explain why later. And yes to you too gentle ...

Shopping till unemployment drops

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2010
... to bring down unemployment." The Fed might still be having a blue Christmas, but as long as it is, it'll keep on stuffing Xmas stockings with freshly minted dollars - the very ones consumers use to go shopping - until unemployment drops.

Lookin' good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 DEC 2010
... good not only for the remainder of 2010 but also beyond the New Year. Sure, there are still ten trading days left before Xmas - 15 till 2011 -- and anything can still happen between then. But if you look beyond the negative sensationalist headlines that ...

Thanks but no thanks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
... You may continue to doubt the surge in spending but US businesses aren't, they're stocking up their shelves in time for the Xmas buying season. Business inventories increased by 0.9 in September following an upwardly revised 0.9 per cent (from 0.6 per ...
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