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Spanish austerity and Chinese take-away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
... are dated data which the Fed's QE3 is intended to fix -- that's of course if you ignore good ol' in your face Charlie. Yes folks, he was at it again last night. Non-voting FOMC member and Philly Fed president Charles Plosser told the Wall Street Journal ...

They will or they won't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012
... policies that produce a stabilization and then downward trend in the ratio of federal debt to GDP over the medium term". Yes folks, Moody's is warning about the coming "fiscal cliff". Yeah, yeah, sure, sure. I don't know whether to OMG or ROFL. Haven't ...

Australia: all good and wishing for the worst

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2012
... 0.6% in the June quarter and 3.7% over the year marked exactly 21 years since Australia last experienced a recession. Yes folks, a year and 20! America has had 2 since then - Q1 to Q3 2001 and Q4 2007 to Q1 2009. But what's this? I can't hear no champagne ...

QE hope - must be getting tough again?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2012
... was up again last night after being down the previous day after being up the day before and down the day before that. Yes folks, this is what the past few trading days has boiled down too - markets seesawing on daily headlines. The latest of which is ...

Equity value - cheap or the new normal?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012
... Greece but worse than Spain's predicted 5.9% shortfall and more than the combined Eurozone's 3.5% deficit to GDP ratio. Yes folks, it's not only gonna be a worldwide recession, it'll be a depression. It is either that, or the speculators are back blowing ...

Not that rainy day feeling again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
... of Egan-Jones Ratings Co's downgrade, it was because of Bankia, it was because it was sinker deeper into recession. Yes folks, the same issues and rationales that financial markets ignored not even 24 hours before. Italy is about to blow. It didn't even ...

Bad news? What bad news?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2012
... markets' performance over the past 24 hours will make a believer out of ya'll. Forget Europe, China's coming to the rescue. Yes folks, this is how it all began. Asia took pole position as investors closed their eyes and ears on the still evolving events ...

Bumps along the way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2012
... tomorrow will shape up. The report remains ambiguous as ambiguous can be. Bulls are right. But the bears are correct too. Yes folks, we're still looking at a half-filled empty glass. Or is it a half-empty glass full? Take your pick. Looking at the jobs ...

Sure 25 but maybe 50

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2012
... cue in the usual narratives - QE for the US of A and shift towards less austerity and more focus on growth for Europa. Yes folks, same old, same old. The way things were in overnight trade, we could have just pressed the autopilot and headed for the ...

Waiting to exhale 5

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2011
... for the S&P 500 Index - down 1.1% in early Wall Street activity closed in the green by an eye-popping 0.2%. Ho-hum. Yes folks, it's as if 'twas the night before Christmas, "when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. The ...