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Mother of all hard landings and other BSes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2013
... 500's 17.9% gain and more than the Stoxx 600's 13.5% increase and the FTSE-100's 11.6% climb over the same period. Yes Virginia, we can again count ourselves lucky, lucky, lucky. But don't pop that cork on the champagne bottle yet. There's trouble - ...

Oh how welcome thy voice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2013
... incoming data and the outlook. Our purchases are tied to what happens in the economy". That's where the stupid comes in Virginia. Perhaps that's what happens when you let machines (algorithms) do the trading based on the headlines. They buy (or sell) ...

Is it safe?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2013
... believe it. Christian Szell: Is it safe? Babe: No. It's not safe, it's... very dangerous, be careful. - Marathon Man Yes Virginia...decisions, decisions. But how do you know if it's time to buy, to sell or to hold when you still couldn't make up your ...

The great unwind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013
... payments to Greece and Cyprus requesting to renegotiate the terms of its bailout. Oh em gee! We're really in trouble now Virginia. We're about to re-live the nightmare again. The problem this time is that the 'go to' asset class - US Treasuries -- during ...

The Big Benny sings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2013
... sees 2014 end for QE3" Wall Street Journal: "Bernanke Sets Stage to End Bond Buys Amid Growth" Now don't get me wrong Virginia, I'm in no way saying they are wrong...they all got that one right, only (and again) they left out of the headlines Benny's ...

Yes, no, I don't know

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2013
... taking a few greens off its monthly purchases remains in the realms of stimulation by any yardstick. But having said that Virginia, we still have to listen to what Big Ben has to say...and this time, he has to be crystal clear about his intentions lest ...

Ben's all that matters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2013
... good that's been achieved could see scale back stimulus speculation turn into stimulus expansion whispers. And this, Virginia, would be more expensive for the Fed. Then again, absent the why, how much, how soon and how often, I don't see how much clearer ...

Still in Goldilocks land

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2013
... the world set the record straight on this whole Fed tapering/unwinding/scaling back business. Can you hear that too, Virginia? The financial markets' collective heart pounding as they await Ben Bernanke's assessment of the overall economic picture - ...

The coming 2013 crash according to Paul B. Farrell

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2013
... all: "Doomsday poll: 87% risk of stock crash by year-end Commentary: 10 predictions point to worse plunge than 2008" Yes Virginia, there's an 87% chance of a market meltdown by the end of 2013 according to Farrell "because in the real world of statistical ...

More flip flopping ahead for Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2013
... payrolls -- set for release. You know the drill: better-than-expected outcome equals...; disappointing ones equal... Yes Virginia, markets have been reduced to this -- second guessing the Fed's hand with every single data point that comes its way. If ...