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The day the earth moved

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... country. But it is even sadder that prophets of doom are using the event to peddle their wares. They weren't able to get the spike in oil prices they predicted when the "Day of Rage" came and went in Saudi Arabia without incident. Now it's gonna be Japan. ...

Good jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2011
... excellent entry points into equities - fearing the jobless recovery in the 1990/91 and 2001 recessions and the oil price spike in 2003 when the US invaded Iraq-- the same issues that currently dominate the headlines. But the signs are there. Blink and ...

Tomorrow comes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
... that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is trying to calm down Queen Qaddafi. Still, Libya is not the only source for the spike in oil. The oil premium is there because of fears of supply disruptions as the Jasmine Revolutionaries march through the desert ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2011
... crisis. On Wednesday, the Australian share market closed lower as tensions in the Middle East continued to rattle markets and spike up oil prices. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index fell 23.2 points, or 0.48 per cent, to 4,803.2 points, while the broader ...

Three and a half men

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2011
... down about 1.5 per cent on the day. Oh boy, here we go again. News services were all over the place blaming the renewed spike in crude. Oil spiked - again! - because of reports that people power threatens to spread to Iran, and Iran is the China of OPEC ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... existing home sales rose 2.7 per cent in January, marking three back to back monthly gains, which would have caused markets to spike two or three weeks ago, Mr Weston said. "There is still a lot of uncertainty in the market and a tug of war between keeping ...

Sentiment slips on oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... political stimulus. Certainly the situation in Libya is dire and the threat of a domino effect is real, oil prices could spike even higher but US$220 a barrel? Oh pah-lease!

Bad news bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2011
ave the grizzlies driven the dip buyers away? Americans came back from their President's Day holiday and saw that nervy days are back again. The S&P 500 index dropped by 2.1 per cent overnight - its biggest in 6 months - and the VIX or "fear index" ...

Roubini defects

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 FEB 2011
... inflation had reached the shores of developed economies, indications are - apart from the weather- and speculation induced spike in the headline measure - underlying inflation remains no worries. Have no fear, there's no inflation here. Last night's ...

Headlining the core

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2011
... to nip headline inflation in the bud could flow onto the core measure of prices - raising inflationary expectations. The spike in inflation would ultimately be proved to be temporary... but if it stays temporary for longer, it might reach the core. Only ...