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The weekend that could change the world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013
... present now Will later be past The order is Rapidly fadin'... For the times they are a-changin'." -Bob Dylan This is it Virginia!A This is the final week before the times, they could all a-change. Many of us, Australians all, will be grudgingly sacrificing ...

Buy me a house

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013
... live close to work - the size of a shoebox that could fit only one shoe. You know where I'm going with this, don't you Virginia?A Where else but the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) monetary policy setting.A It decided to hold fire and keep the official ...

30 days hath September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2013
... in Australia by more than 1%.A Too bad for Wall Street, it was celebrating a party of its own, Labor Day. And to think Virginia, we've been talkin' bout - nah, parroting - the aged-old observation that September is statistically the worst month for equities ...

September morn' or September mourn?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2013
... The federal funds rate went from 3% in January 1994 to 5.5% in December and 6.0% by February of the following year. Yes Virginia, the Fed doubled the cost of borrowing in just a month and a year! But...but (yeah me like buts), but what were US conditions ...

Growth and QE - will this time be different?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2013
... (CCAdj)) increased $78.3 billion in the second quarter, in contrast to a decrease of $26.6 billion in the first". Yes Virginia, we've left cactusville.A This is definitely a good set of numbers particularly if you account for all the negatives that Uncle ...

Delay of execution

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2013
I thought this would happen, but not to happen so soon. Yes Virginia, Wall Street's reaction to the looming war with Syria is playing out according to the script of the 1991 Iraq War and its 2003 sequel. There's the sell orders that comes with the anxiety ...

Prepare for take-off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2013
... 27.2% gain by the end of 1991. Iraq War Part II:A "Operation Iraqi Freedom" (2003) Guess, I don't have to remind you Virginia.A You very well know how they run sequels.A Same characters, same plot, same ending. War talks brought the S&P 500 index down ...

FOMC - Fed Outs Market Confusion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2013

Butterfly effect

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2013

Uncertainty stinks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2013