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When everything went wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
... hedge fund insider trading and worse-than-expected existing home sales report for October. At least China's still growing. Ahhh, but Mr. Market fears that there too, something is about to go wrong. According to Bloomberg, "China's biggest banks are poised ...

Whac-a-mole 2.0

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
... 10 per cent this year, it shall be so. Comrade Wen could turn on the pump just as instantly as he's able to turn it off. Ahhh... the joys of a command economy (especially in times of crisis) when the soldiers' motto, "yours is not to question why, yours ...

Bad hair day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2010
... buying, house prices continue to rise, employers are hiring - that Australians are becoming more confident in taking on debt? Ahhh, debt - that lonely, unloved word of the times. While many a developed country has been sunk and continues to sink because ...

Cards for houses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2010
... - it's the government's money anyway. Not to mention they get to live rent-free while foreclosure proceedings are afoot. Ahhh, the American dream! But as we've seen yesterday, the psychology changes when, to borrow Robert Schiller's quote, the government ...

Good newer news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2010
... number was adjusted higher by 6,000 more jobs. More, July marked the sixth consecutive month of increase in private payrolls. Ahhh... but here the bears have something to say. They point to the accompanying ADP press release saying that private job gains ...

Mood change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2010
... the US dollar appreciation - net exports would also be a drag on the second quarter economy. Where's the positive in that? Ahhh...but China continues to grow. Yes, and this space had been trying to hammer that in for a long, long while now. I've always ...

RIP May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2010
... officially down 8.2 per cent in the month -- and is snorkelling below water level by 2.3 per cent since the start of 2010. Ahhh... but there may still be hope for those watching the month-by-month gyrations in the Asian and European equity markets. Not! ...

Hold, Fold or Run

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAY 2010
... it Europe and Asia taking its cue from the US or the US mirroring Europe's moves which is reflecting Asia's ups and downs? Ahhh... the downside of an interconnected world! There'll be more of this volatility in the coming weeks -- even months -- as investors ...

Too much ado about Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2010
... blah, blah, blah, tax cut, blah, blah, tax cut. Guess that's good enough for me. It'll keep me smoking till the day I quit. Ahhh... c'e la vie, at least I know we -- smokers -- are now bigger contributors to the Australian economy. I apologise for my ...

More of the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2010
... The European Union is now in discussions to ban "purely speculative naked sales on credit default swaps of sovereign debt." Ahhh yes, specyulators -- the fall guys for Greece's crisis. And Portugal's...and Spain's...and... But it won't have any teeth ...