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Oxi Oxi Oxi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2015
... Then again, it might not but I wouldn't go daring Murphy's Law -- "anything that can wrong, will go wrong." And then 'Houston, we all have a problem'... if the Euro collapses. Remember that the Euro is now a major reserve currency - though down from ...

Graccident averted (yet again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
Hoo-wow! Houston, we had lift-off. Yes Virginia, financial markets from New York to Rio and old London town lifted off while we slept. Equity markets jumped while bond yields dived. These, because on optimism that a Greco-troika deal would be hammered ...

Greece in crisis (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2015
Sit down, buckle up and hang on. Houston, we don't have a problem... we now have a crisis (yet again). More precisely, a replay of the Greek debt crisis. Just have a look at some of the headlines this morning: "Stocks all over the world are dropping ...

'Patient' Party

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
... speculation heated on whether or not the word "patient" would be deleted. The deletion of which is the Fed's way of saying, "Houston, we have ignition...prepare for lift-off". Perhaps it's Madame Yellen's soothing words, "Just because we're not using ...

US$200b a quarter to keep the bulls going

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014
... technicals, etc, etc etc. And then they hit... hard -- the central banks' jawbones, that is, whispering mo' money. And now Houston, we have lift off and volatility is nearly half (16.27 this morning on the VIX) of what it was exactly two weeks ago (31.06). ...

Now where have I heard that before?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014
Houston, we've got another one. Another one of those big falls on Wall Street - yup, those ones that almost always begs the question, is this the one (the start of a bigger correction) or another dip begging to be bought? This time it's the International ...

US bond market says not yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2014
... correction - that many have been talkin' 'bout, at the very least, since 2013 became 2014? Perhaps... maybe... possibly. For Houston, we have a problem! Oh sorry Houston, we haven't got a problem - we got a crisis! There's Argentina defaulting on its ...

Yellen yawn turn to Yellen yikes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2014
... media and biotechnology industries, despite a notable downturn in equity prices for such firms early in the year."... and Houston, we had a sell-off! "...particularly those for smaller firms in the social media and biotechnology industries." I read Janet's ...

Waiting for the ECB to exhale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... for deflation. Add to this the slower growth resulting from the deferment of consumer and business spending and voila... Houston, we have another problem!... and is not as if the euro area's economy is going gangbusters either. GDP inched up by only ...

Impasse ends when Wall Street says stop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013