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The future according to Ben

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUN 2010
"My best guess is we will have a continued recovery, but it won't feel terrific." This is the future according to Ben. Spoken like a real trooper. With these words, Big Ben appears to have calmed financial markets - equity and commodity markets rose ...

Bring it on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUN 2010
... V into a W - offering a positive counterbalance to the ongoing debt crisis across the Atlantic. Bring it on Europe! The guess. According to Bloomberg, consensus predicts that the US payrolls report would show that some 536,000 workers have found jobs ...

True Lies

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAY 2010
... Would it shoot itself in the foot and announce to the whole wide world that, "yes, we're selling euros"? No way, Jose! My guess is -- like everyone else at this point in time -- China's deciding whether to "sell on rallies" or "buy the dips". "Though ...

Sell in May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2010
... theories, studies and reports proving or disproving this quotation come a-visiting. By merely stating this observation, I guess I, too, am guilty as charged. Would the equity markets' reaction to unfolding events while we were sleeping -- and even before ...

Too much ado about Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2010
... faced by the vast majority of Australians." Say what??? All I heard was blah, blah, blah, tax cut, blah, blah, tax cut. Guess that's good enough for me. It'll keep me smoking till the day I quit. Ahhh... c'e la vie, at least I know we -- smokers -- are ...

America's Eyjafjallajokull

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2010
... Goldman Sach's volcano explodes. Wall Street rose last night as companies reported better than expected earnings results. And guess which one stood out? Goldman Sachs! Yes, the same one facing fraud charges from the US Securities and Exchange Commission ...

Enviable problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2010
It was about this time last year that a few of my closest friends were given the boot by their employers and told their services were no longer needed. It is not so much that they lost their jobs that worried them but the negative prospects that awaited ...

In a better place

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2010
Down day, up week. This was Wall Street's performance lat Friday and over the pass five trading days. And since the Australian equity market "almost" always marches to the beat of Wall Street's drum, market observers/forecasters guessing that it would ...

End game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2010
... most massive misallocation of wealth... a bubble waiting to burst." Puh... lease. Does this dude still have any right to guess the future? Last time I checked, he was with LTCM when the fund lost US$14 billion in a span of a few weeks in 1998 and collapsed. ...

Happy birthday bull

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
Guess what? It's the bull market's first anniversary today! Hip..hip... Hooray Virgina! You and I have kept up the faith despite being battered by waves of doubters in an ocean of despair. It was exactly one year ago (9 March 2009) when Wall Street ...