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Why the eurozone cannot afford cheap oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014
I wonder, wonder if there's anyone on this planet that's wishin' and hopin' and prayin' for higher and forever rising crude oil prices - except, that is, for the producers and the sellers of the slick black stuff... and of course, the climate changers. ...

The kindness of central banks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2014
S&P 500 2000 here we come! It won't be long now. Yes Virginia, with the S&P 500 index less than 50 points away (or 2.5%) from the 2,000-point milestone it'll just a few more sleeps and it'll be there - my back of the envelope calculation show that the ...

Jeremy Cooper: Rethinking retirement

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2014
Challenger's Jeremy Cooper talks to FS Super associate editor James Fernyhough about retirement income, challenging some widely-held beliefs about the drawdown phase of superannuation. As one-time chair of the Cooper Review, Jeremy Cooper knows Australia's ...

Another 10 bil to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2014
... another US$10 billion reduction in Fed asset shopping this month. Emerging markets are better off hopin' and wishin' and prayin' that their slump takes Wall Street down with it, or for a more life-altering event...send the yield on US Treasuries up ...

Prayin' for a taperin'

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2013

Gone fishin'

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 OCT 2013

Let 'em rip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2013

Treasuries - safe but not so rewarding

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2013
This was to be the year of the Great Rotation. The period when the bond market waves the white flag and give up the fight for investor dollars to the market for equities. That's until Cyprus. It has to come up with a,-5.8 billion (by taxing bank deposits ...

On positive contagion, reflation and the great rotation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2013
"I think I can make it now, the pain is gone All of the bad feelings have disappeared Here is the rainbow I've been prayin' for It's gonna be a bright (bright), bright (bright) Sun-shiny day." -- Johnny Nash, "I Can See Clearly Now" Remember contagion? ...

Doing our bit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2012
In my book last week has gotta be one of the boring-est weeks of 2012. But with most equity markets ending on the plus side, boring is good enough for me. Reports that the US economy created 163,000 jobs in July - better than the 100K expected - sent ...