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New kid on the block

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2015
... sidelines which... counter-intuitively makes it NOT a bubble (or at least, keep this bubble from popping). Think back to the dotcom days or more recently, the financial-engineered CDO's of not too long ago (even the Fed and the IMF and their dogs didn't ...

Tech stock tech stock (tick tock tick tock)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015

Heads up to where Wall Street's heading

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2014
... shouldn't he? And just have a read at "this time it's different" quotes Bloomberg compiled (thanks Bloomie) comparing the dotcom bubble to the now: ""If you look at the valuations then versus now, it's night and day," Walter Todd, who oversees about ...

Independence Day for the US economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
... milestone, the Russell 2000's also at a fresh high and the Nasdaq (though still about 11% away) is climbing steadily towards the dotcom high established in March 2000. Wall Street's jump was reportedly due to Independence Day for the US economy - that ...

So good but for the wrong spin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014
... away to new record highs. The Nasdaq closed strongly too (up 1.1%) but it still has about 12% to go before it breaches the dotcom bubble high of 5,048.62 points set 14 years before (10 March 2000). But, but...but perhaps not for the reasons a great many ...

What's luck got to do with it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2013

Tony, SBY and Janet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2013
Were it not for the Australia-Indonesia spat, financial market activity's turning out just as I feared at the start of this week - dull and boring. What's in a word? Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott refused to say "sorry" (ala Johnnie Howard) only ...

Rational exuberance?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013
... - it's now at 110% of GNP. The last time it was this high was in 2007 (gulp) though still below the 140% hit during the dotcom bubble (before it burst). Will time come when investors eventually fear more (instead of less) QE - or its costs becomes greater ...

Money, money, money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2013

Green, green grass of home

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2013
... generation!) without a recession. That's despite being subjected to the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997/98, the bursting of the dotcom bubble in 2000, September 11, 2001, GFC of 2008...and Julia Gillard. The US has had two over that same period - one ...