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Volatile safe-haven bonds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2013
... climbed to 2.23 percent, the highest level since April 5, 2012" yesterday. And what made it jump on 5 April 2012? Yes Virginia, it was because of QE3 speculations...but that time, it was whether or not the Fed would announce QE3. On that day in April ...

Austerity can be hazardous to your health

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2013

Money, money, money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2013

RBA to raise rates in Wayne's world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2013
... I'll spare you the anguish, the anxiety, the suspense. The RBA will raise interest rates today. Yes, you read it right Virginia. Shortly after lunch, the Reserve Bank of Australia will announce that it is lifting the official cash rate. This is, of course ...

Vale William Mahoney

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013
... Associates in 2006 at the age of 48, which enabled him to focus on his wife Alice Bartlett Mahoney and his two daughters Virginia and Jo-Jo, who were born in Australia. He died in New Canaan, Connecticut seven years later after a battle with pancreatic ...

May Day happy day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013
... last week - 21K less than market expectations - to 324K (the lowest since January 2008). Bring out the champers too, Virginia, for the European Central Bank has delivered the goods, and then some. The ECB noted: "... we decided to lower the interest ...

May Day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2013
... Australia's May first performance didn't do any better - the All Ords fell. So did the Nikkei and the Shanghai Composite. Yes, Virginia, those nasty sprinkles started in our time zone. Never mind the interplay of global economic forces on domestics ...

Follow the money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013
... brain as to whether economies are improving or deteriorating and/or the Fed would unwind sooner or later. Enough of that Virginia! You can rest easy now for Bloomberg has just found the golden ticket to ride the equity market. Thanks to its reporter ...

It's the headlines, you twit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013
... mortgage rates helped the industry complete the strongest quarter since 2008, putting the economy on firmer footing." Yes Virginia, last week the disappointing results from the Empire State and the Philly Fed surveys indicated that US growth momentum ...

Three arrows hitting the spot

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2013
"Your love keeps liftin' me higher Than I've ever been lifted before..." - Jackie Wilson No Virginia, it's not about Wall Street this time...this time investors are back lovin' made-in-Japan stocks...lifting the Nikkei perhaps not higher than it's been ...