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Rational exuberance?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013
... of another round of global monetary easing". Hip, hip... Mo' money for you and for me and the entire human race. Yes Virginia, be happy for even 'the maestro' (Alan Greenspan) has reappeared on Bloomberg Television go forth and buy. "In a sense, we are ...

QE infinity anybody?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013
We're back! Yes Virginia, the financial market world's returning to where they were before - I'd say before 22 May 2013. You know the one, the day Ben Bernanke testified before Congress and was asked if the Fed is "going to tighten by Labor Day?" The ...

While America was shuttered

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2013
... stays on target. It's the mini-stimulus - tax cuts and spending on rail infrastructure -- that did it this time. Yes Virginia, communist China is the real Keynesian. In Europe, if not for the political comedy in Washington, we would be watching the one ...

Calendar says buy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013
They did it again! Yes Virginia, Washington did what most Tom, Dick and Harriet expected it would do. It reached a compromise deal at the 11th hour. Wall Street's happy, especially those who stayed the course and saw through the political shenanigans ...

Last minute deal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 OCT 2013
Stop the clock! A deal has been forged in Washington! Yes Virginia, it again played out as scripted - after so much grandstanding, with both sides holding their ground and a lotta hullabaloos...an agreement was struck...at the last minute. Were it not ...

Bears out a-haunting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013
Shutdown: Day 8 and counting and... 9 days to go before the US debt hit the ceiling. Yes Virginia, those adult politicos in Washington are still at it...playing their game of chickens. Both sides are waiting for the other to blink. You know what happens ...

Counting up and counting down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
Shutdown: Day 7 (going by the US time zone)...and counting. Can you feel it, can you feel it, can you feel it Virginia? Wall Street's back to the seesaw - up or down depending on every single blah US politicians' invoke over the shutdown and the debt ...

Impasse ends when Wall Street says stop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013

Central banks rule

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2013
... pretty sure you'll be able to find these risks embedded somewhere on the back of many investors' heads. But never you mind Virginia. What gives is really Big Ben's continued giving. QE doesn't only flow one way you know - it could be tapered or...it ...

Shutdown with an i

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2013