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Bad everywhere news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2012
Believe me I tried... and I tried, and I tried. But I can't find no, no good news on cyberspace, on print or th airwaves this morning. The good news have all AWOL it seems. What I found instead was a listing of the bad and the ugly. Below are the Bloomberg ...

IMF - It Means Fun

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
Here you go again, u-huh, scaring us again, u-huh. Can you feel it, can you feel it, can you feel it? Sure you can, it's all over the place - Chicken Little is going around crying "the sky is falling" (again). You can't miss it, not even if you close ...

Data deluge delivers no clearer visibility

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2012
'Twas raining data updates over the past 24 hours. Eco stats and surveys flooded cyberspace unrelentingly, one after the other, and yet near-term visibility remains almost... invisible. Take your pick Virginia. There are numbers to back up the "we're ...

No BO news till elections please?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2012
You just gotta love the financial markets -- they don't run out of things to speculate about. With QE speculation over, the guessing game has shifted to whether or not QEs will work to bring back animal spirits and lead to a longer lasting and durable ...

Waiting to digest

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012
With three of the world's biggest central banks - The Fed, the ECB and the BOJ - flooding the world with money, financial markets are still digesting what this all means. The "will they, won't they" do a QE question had been answered. They did. Now ...

Put up or shut up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012
Pa-lease stop with these nudge, nudge, wink, wink already -- and ease up on the promises and pledges while you're at it. No, I speak not to you Virginia, but it is to Ben and Mario I direct my displeasure. I've been watching the markets for decades ...

Bond boom or bust?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2012
We've peered through the Hole and we saw something - we think. Now it's the Europeans turn. Yes Virginia, the Europeans are back in town! And yes, Virginia, we can tell because we're hearing the same rhetoric from the usual suspects being replayed on ...

Limboland

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2012

China FDI flow slows, and?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012
Don't look now but fresh bad news has just come out of China. This time, however, there was not that "sky is falling" feeling that populates cyberspace each time Chinese economic updates disappoint market expectation. Sure there were the obligatory ...

Blahs take the blues away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2012
Another day, another blah to keep risk takers happy. Yes Virginia, in keeping up with our Olympics theme, it's turning out to be a blah relay. This time, Eric S. Rosengren -- president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston - is running with the blah ...