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S&P 500: 22 corrections in 6 months

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014
... expensive valuations, slow economic growth (and therefore, tepid earnings growth), geo-politics - Iraq, Russia, Ukraine, Syria - and its effect on oil prices, the Fed is "behind the curve"... name it and you'll find it... a rationale for why the market ...

The scares that weren't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... and Donetsk... and Russia continuing to amass troops in the Ukrainian border (this is still on-going). Still on-going is Syria, China-Vietnam/Japan/Philippines/Malaysia tit for tats over a few pieces of rock floating on the ocean... and currently showing ...

Wall Street slips on oil slick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... barrel to a high US$114 in April 2011. Through all these - and including Wall Street's big, big fall during the GFC (and Syria and Libya) - the S&P 500 index is ever so higher. "War" might not be good for absolutely nothing after all... it's good in ...

Reheating the cold war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
... summit. Putin's probably been emboldened by his not so small victory in preventing America from militarily intervening in Syria. And long-term ally China is now the second biggest economy in the world. And as Frederick Kempe's column - published nearly ...

In praise of the gloom and doomers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2014

Reflation, rotation and the taper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013
... slowing growth in China, Kim Jong-un's nuke adventure in April, the Boston bombings, the threat of America going to war with Syria and who can forget...the US shutdown and debt ceiling. These all proved short-lived. These only provided buying opportunities ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2013
... markets mostly gaining on news Larry Summers had withdrawn from the Federal Reserve chairmanship race and lessend fears over Syria. At 0805 AEST on Tuesday, the September share price index futures contract was down 17 points at 5,238. In economic news ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2013
... markets mostly gaining on news Larry Summers had withdrawn from the Federal Reserve chairmanship race and lessend fears over Syria. At 0805 AEST on Tuesday, the September share price index futures contract was down 17 points at 5,238. In economic news ...

Friday the 13th spook

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2013

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2013
... markets and the euro steadied as traders reacted to a drop in eurozone industrial production and awaited a key meeting on Syria. Britain's government meanwhile officially launched plans to privatise more than half of Royal Mail, saying an initial sale ...