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Losing triple A by trying to maintain AAA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2013

Wheel of fortune

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 APR 2012
... improved relative to the situation prevailing in late 2011, but indicators still suggest a fragile recovery" last week. If the wheels of the virtuous cycle continue to turn as we expect, pretty soon even this caveat would be no more and the wheel of ...

Market woes cause adviser headache

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
... about Europe and Italy in particular were affecting markets. "There's a possibility we'll fall further especially if the wheels fall off Italy," he said. Spooner said non-cyclical stocks would fare best in the current environment. His two picks were ...

Wheels rolling away from commission

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2010
AMP continues on its path away from a commission-based fee model, testing the waters by removing the in-built commissions within the AMP Growth Bond fund. It's a small step for AMP given that the fund is new but, if the strategy works, it could become ...

Positive contagion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
... in about a month - the S&P 500 surged 1.4 per cent and the Nasdaq finished 1.1 per cent higher. All good. "Suddenly the wheels are in motion And I, I'm ready to sail any ocean Suddenly I don't need the answers Cos I, I'm ready to take all my chances..." ...

We're still in Kansas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2009
... a total of 159,000. Yes, the report was music to Wall Street's ears that I could almost hear it singing, "Suddenly the wheels are in motion And I I'm ready to sail any ocean Suddenly I don't need the answers Cos I, I'm ready to take all my chances with ...

What China wants China gets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2009
... in the comparable period. The strength of the credit data indicates that there remains plenty to go around to grease the wheels of the economy. We still have to see Beijing's revised growth target for 2010 but not a few private forecasters have already ...

Our fearful trip is done

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2009
... policy setting back to normal that is. Normally...typically, this would be regarded as bad. Bad for credit which greases the wheels of the economy. Hence, bad for the economy. Bad for calculating value in the stock market. Hence, bad for the stock market. ...

Good Bank Bad Bank

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2009
... financial institutions and they will be healthy enough to resume lending. Credit will again start flowing and grease the wheels of recovery. But this maybe better said than done. After all the RTC of 1989 bought assets from institutions that were already ...

The day after tomorrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2009
... renewed hope that this time, what needs to be fixed will be fixed - and urgently. Animal spirits will be re-awakened and the wheels of growth will again start to roll forward. Yes we can! Obama is no Moses. The task at hand is great. But the fresh promise ...