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They will or they won't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012
We're heading into the home stretch folks. Soon we'll find out the answer to that seemingly eternal "will they, won't they" question? The German Constitutional Court will deliver its verdict on the legality of the EFSF/ESM rescue fund and the US Federal ...

Bond boom or bust?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2012
... year - yes, a surplus (eat your heart out Swannie). The same thing's happening in South Korea - its 5-year government bond yield has fallen to a record low of 2.81%. Reports were that slowing inflation would allow the Bank of Korea to lower interest ...

Fidelity calls rising tide for equities

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2012
Having been bearish on equities for the past 18 months, there is growing evidence for cautious optimism on the part of equity investors. Equities have been pushed down by fears of a European crisis, however equity markets have "switched out of panic ...

The QE Paradox

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012
Indecisions, indecisions... Is this the sound of silence I hear? Investors appear to have stopped on their tracks, unsure of whether the next move would be a jump or a dive. But with momentum blowing on their tail, chances are the uptrend that started ...

Known knowns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2012
It's still many, many sleeps before Christmas yet last night seems to be "the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse." Financial markets generally marked time while we slept, unstirred by fresh ...

Blahs take the blues away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2012
... fund last month as the U.S. projected record budget deficits." That was back in February last year when the US 10-year bond yield averaged 3.57%. It's now at 1.56%. Ouch! And you even had a helping hand from Standard & Poor's removal of one A from America's ...

If not now, when?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012
After all is said and done, much was said but nothing was done. Risk-takers have every reason to feel disappointed for none of the central banks - Fed, ECB, BOE -- that met this week walked their talk (the BOE though didn't do much talking). There weren't ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2012
The Australian sharemarket has opened higher as investors increase their exposure to risk while waiting to see if stimulus measures in Europe and the US will spark growth. At 1019 AEST on Tuesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 13.2 points, or ...

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 ...

Lucky in so many ways

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2012
We all know the drill. Once Europe's back in the headlines, markets suffer a case of the jitters. When they do, they begin hoping that a QE fix would soon be in the offing. Homer (the cartoon, not the Greek epic poet and author of the Iliad and the ...