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Miranda Kerr and the market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2010
... go a long way in easing the pain. Someone please email me one! Now I understand why people around the world - and I would guess that they mainly belong in this industry - are crying out to "SAVE Dave"! If you haven't heard about David Kiely, Macquarie ...

RBA mixes its game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2010
... "you don't tell us what to do?" And by doing what it did yesterday, the RBA sent a message that it doesn't pay to second-guess the RBA. The explanations, rationales, justifications after the RBA announcement provided by the various media made for amusing ...

Juice flow to continue in 2010

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2010
Happy New Year! The year 2009 is now a memory but a happy one at that. It was the year when bear calls were dismissed and risk-taking paid off - handsomely. Could we expect more of the same this year? Can equity markets, commodity markets and other ...

Dummy spit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2009
... on transparency was talk a lot, use plenty of numbers, but say nothing. Things were so bad one TV network even tried to guess his thoughts by looking at the briefcase he carried to work. You promised Congress more transparency when you came to the job ...

Australians as Asians

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2009
... counterweight to the downward pull of the advanced economies, a tiny country like Australia could have melted ala Iceland. And guess what? Wall Street started the first day of December with a rally. Need I tell you why? In one word - China. The country's ...

Sell dollars to buy stocks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2009
... Rebounds, Treasuries Gain". Yes, it had been that way since the GFC. The correlation between the US dollar and US equities - I guess you could extend that to all equities given that we all follow where Wall Street goes - had become almost perfectly inversely ...

The Art of War

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2009
... the book discusses the strategy of "Besiege and Rescue". The US economic and financial systems are currently under siege. Guess who comes to the rescue? Step 2. Implement other Sun Tzu strategy, "Hide a knife behind a smile." China is currently funding ...

December 25bps

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2009
... another 25 basis point increase in the official cash rate before Christmas. The odds fell to a 50 per cent chance it will - I guess this is the same as saying it won't - after the 0.2 per cent fall in retail spending in September caught a market expecting ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2009
The Australian sharemarket remained stronger at noon, albeit off its early peak, after better than expected economic growth numbers in the US overnight put a fire under the market. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 55 points, or 1.2 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2009
... commodities markets over the weekend. "They are always the double-barrel trigger for our market," Mr Heffernan said. "I guess a bit of market fatigue coupled with no external lead has led to an easing in the market today." The decline was mainly due ...