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Bad news sells

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2012
... "The Australian" added that, the August number is "the sixth consecutive month it has been below 100, its long-run average." OMG! Two thousand one was the time the music died for the dotcoms and the US was in recession in 2001 and we know what happened ...

"If it becomes necessary" time?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2012
... What's more, 49,000 jobs disappeared in March and April after revisions. The unemployment rate ticked up to 8.2% from 8.1%. OMG! Thus, it's hardly surprising that Wall Street behaved the way that it did. The Dow closed 274.9 points on the day for a 6.2% ...

No money in equities

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012
... investors have taken US$8.2 billion out of equities and placed US$31.7 bil in bond funds. The immediate reaction would be OMG! Money's being drained out of equities. It's bad, so bad. Frontrunning the "sell in May" perhaps? Well yes and no. Yes, because ...

Scare me not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2012
... lubricated the Dow's slide. It fell by 16.8% from a peak of 12,810.5 at the end of April last year to a low of 10,655.3 in October. OMG! Now that's real scary. But hang on a minute. Did I say lubricate? That's a synonym for grease - or should I say ...

Bring it on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2012
... on 10-year Spanish bonds rose to a 4-month high of 5.98% while those of Italy's jumped to 5.69% -- the highest in a month. OMG! I'm so scared. They're heading back up to the record 6.71% (Spain) and 7.29% (Italy) reached last November. You know the one ...

No QE, not bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2012
... "slide", "slump" the headlines are talking about? It is a dip of 0.5% on the Dow, 0.4% on the S&P 500 and 0.2% on the Nasdaq. OMG! I'm so scared. The sky has fallen. My only regret is that they haven't fallen more. It would have been one heck of another ...

All that jazz

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2012
... highest level in more than four years. It was confidence, consumer confidence to be exact. And oh boy, this would be another OMG moment if this alleged wobbling in confidence translates into wobbles in spending. I don't have to remind you that the American ...

Wen Confucius meets Sun Tzu

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2012
... became really, truly scared at the latest scare - China is slowing. That's certain to be an oh-em-gee moment, shouldn't it? And OMG moments should leave to bigger drops in equities. The China is slowing scare was prompted by reports that Premier Wen ...

Autumn Angst

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2011
OMG! We're really in trouble now, Italian-sized big trouble. Italy - the economy that's considered too big to bail - looks like it's gonna need one as the yield on its 10-year government bonds surged past the 7% bailout mark. Italian 10-year bonds rose ...

Uncertainty here we come (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 NOV 2011
OMG! What in the effing world was he thinking? Just when we thought Europe was moving forward in the right direction, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou had to open his mouth and announce a "referendum" on whether or not his people would accept ...

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