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Gone in 60 seconds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2013
... platform. I can still taste the fear back then. Yet to this day, the single currency area remains single. And today, Virginia, some green shoots are even appearing. The latest of which is Markit Economics' report that the eurozone's composite PMI rose ...

It's happening

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2013

Propensity for foot shooting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2013

It's just plain dumb

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012
... minus 0.4% (predicted in September) and 2013 to plus 0.3% from plus 0.5%. All because of... optimism on a cliff deal. Yes Virginia, it's cliff here, cliff there, everywhere a cliff cliff. I'm tired of writing about the cliff - as I think you are of reading ...

Sweeet!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012
Greece is saved... again! Wall Street back to worrying about the cliff... again! Yes Virginia, this is another I told you so moment. You, I and Irene expected these to happen all along: We won't have closure on that US$607 billion fiscal cliff until ...

Worried about the US? Buy US Treasuries

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2012

Fool me not again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2012
... fiscal cliff? Of course everybody has. Nobody can miss it even if they try. Not you, not I, not Irene. Yes, not you too Virginia. It's all over... everywhere. Not when that cliff is used to explain the daily movements on Wall Street... and where The ...

A week full of question marks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2012
... too until... he didn't. The S&P 500 finished Friday down by 0.94%, nearly erasing the previous day's 1.09% advance. Yes Virginia, this is another 'what the' moment. For 'what the' fudge's wrong this time? What, what, what? The US employment report was ...

Not long now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012
... Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released the better-than-expected scorecard for the economy. But don't despair Virginia, we didn't miss much. Better than expected it may be but the 2.0% annualised growth in US real GDP in the third quarter ...

Wen again gets what Wen wants

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012
Gung hei fat choy! You read it right Virginia. It's the greeting we hear (if I spelled it correctly) when the Chinese New Year comes around. For like Halloween and Xmas, it also appears to have come early. Sing Hallelujah! Sing it. Sing Hallelujah! ...