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Li gets what Li likes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013
... Markets will continue to see what they want to see and hear what they want to hear but the bottom line is that the Fed would taper QE when it's a 100% confident of a sustained, organic growth in the economy. How's that bad for the equity markets? Speaking ...

Careful of the recession you wish for

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013
... alone after all. But if ever the Fed was really testing the financial market waters by deliberately hinting that it would...taper...sometime soon, Wall Street's reaction last week might have given it confidence that Wall Street could take it. A potential ...

The day the music died

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
"Bye, bye miss American pie..." and pastries from Japan and China. Equity markets from New York to Rio and old London town dropped like flies over the past 24 hours. It would have been easy to put this down to the usual garden variety correction were ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
... dropping more than 2.0 per cent with Tokyo shares plunging owing to weak Chinese data and signs the US Federal Reserve may soon taper massive stimulus measures. London's FTSE 100 index of leading shares fell 2.10 per cent to 6,696.79 points, while in ...

Fed speaks Fedspeak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
... response for it delivered the message to the Fed's message that markets' don't believe it's that time yet when the words "taper" and "QE" go together. Prematurely unwinding policy accommodation could also unwind the virtuous cycle that the Fed is seeking ...

Quo vadis dollar-A?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2013
Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Dive! Dive! Dive! You've heard the news - our very own currency is top of the pops no more, it's made one hell of celebrity splash over the past week as it fell below parity against the big dollar and continued to head down ...

It doesn't compute

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013
You kiddin' me? Are...you...kidding...me? The financial press (or is it presses?) are full of it this morning. Wall Street's down overnight because of bad eco stats and surveys and not good expectations on QE. My, my...how many times have we heard it ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2013
Australian bond futures prices are higher as weak economic data from the US and Europe sparks a move into safe-haven assets. During the overnight session, it was reported that the euro zone recession continued into a six quarter in the first three months ...

A long two-month wait

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2013

Not the biggest loser

BENJAMIN ONG  |  SUNDAY, 18 MAR 2012