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Why QE3 will work

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2012
Uh-oh, I think I made a boo-boo. Two gentle readers wrote to express their disagreement with the musings I wrote on this column yesterday - yes, the one where I said "QE3 will work," just as QE1 and QE2 did. In case you missed it, you can read it here ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2012
... in red figures at the start of trade. Energy stocks were down 0.57 per cent, gold stocks were off 0.74 per cent and financials were down 0.49 per cent. RBS Morgans Ipswich manager Tony Russell said the weak start on the local market was probably because ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2012
... to IRESS data. Meanwhile, energy stocks were up 0.66 per cent, while consumer staples had also risen 0.66 per cent. Financials and materials - Australia's two big market sectors - were up 0.15 per cent and 0.03 per cent, respectively. However, gold stocks ...

Variant Perceptions' variant perception

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2012
... a weaker currency." Finally, "our view is that the Australian equity market cap will re-weight away from mining and financials towards industrials and eventually consumer and retail." My, my, that really is a variant perception if ever I saw one! ================== ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2012
... IRESS data. Big market sectors such as industrial stocks (up 0.43 per cent), materials stocks (up 0.24 per cent) and financials (up 0.23 per cent) were also in positive territory. Telecoms were down 0.4 per cent. The bright start on the overall market ...

Believe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012
"C'mon baby light my fire..." That exactly was what European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi did when he spoke at the Global Investment Conference in London last night. Read his lips: "To the extent that the size of these sovereign premia ...

Food is the new Europe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2012
Uh-oh, looks like the EU has not kicked that pestering debt crisis can far enough down the road. Wasn't it only a few days ago (last Friday) that they approved Spain's a,-100 billion bail? And not even a month has passed since their announcement of ...

Digging dirt

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2012
Well that didn't last long, did it? Europe's back in the headlines and suddenly headlines are back digging all the big, bad news that's out there. On the same day that the EU formally approved Spain's a,-100 billion rescue package to recapitalise its ...

Bad news? Where?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2012
The times, they are a-changin' - or more accurately, market sentiment is. The glass is no longer half-empty, it's half-filled and if leaks again, the Fed will be there to top it up. So half-full that our very own S&P/AX 200 index surged by more than ...

The twain could not meet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2012
What's wrong with this picture? "Investors pushed stocks sharply higher, erasing all of July's losses, as investors reacted to strong corporate earnings and continued hopes for central-bank intervention." Nothing it seems. It sounds oh, so rationale. ...