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Good US housing news is real good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2012
"Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world." -- Abraham Lincoln Yes Virginia, property is good and an improving property market is good for the economy. Now do you still wonder why Ben Bernanke is doing ...

It's raining, it's pouring good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2012
... stocks), the FTSE-100 gained 1.1% and Japan's Nikkei-225 index finished 1.44% stronger. When it rains, it pours. Yes Virginia, we've not only been getting rain since then, but a pouring of good news. We've got more last night. US industrial production ...

Data deluge delivers no clearer visibility

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2012
... 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 doomed, we'll never make it" crowd. But there's also digits that substantiate those ...

The pain in Spain does not fall mainly on the plain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
... of unity within the Eurozone. It makes a mockery of the euro area's work-in-progress towards greater fiscal union. No Virginia, the rain in Spain does not fall mainly on the plain. As MarketWatch eloquently puts it, "One question that inevitably arises ...

Australia: all good and wishing for the worst

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2012
... world is so stuffed up (I can't use the other F word), that the Australian economy is in danger of slowing big time. Yes Virginia. The rationales all seem reasonable. But haven't we heard all this before? The Australian economy had been through a lot ...

Put up or shut up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012
... 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 - been caught up in the 1987 ...

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

100% world recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2012
... Harry), there ain't much to goose the financial markets this week. It'll be the same as the past five boring trading days Virginia. Sitting and waiting and hoping - and reacting every now and then to hints of QE and/or ECB bond purchases - until TGIF ...

Fed's about to go... or not?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2012
... a wonderful day! Plenty of sunshine heading my way Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay" - Song of the South It's coming, Virginia! It is coming! It's all there in black and white, the Fed's just inched closer to giving what financial markets really, really ...