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The Big Benny sings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2013
... Sachs, I promise I'll return it) gave their own rendition of Big Benny's song...and it was a chorus of song sang blue. Bloomberg: "Bernanke Says Fed on Course to End Asset Buying in 2014" Reuters: "Stocks, bond prices drop as Fed points to reduced bond ...

New Bloomberg tool a 'game changer'

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2013
Bloomberg has unveiled a suite of tools and analytics for investor relations professionals to better manage their workflow. Bloomberg's investor relations offering centralises the information, news, research and analytics needed to monitor the markets ...

The death of QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2013
... Yet, we read this headline from Reuters: "Treasuries Climb as Drop in Global Equities Spurs Safety Demand" or this from Bloomberg, "World stocks down as Treasuries rally". But...but, but haven't stocks been rallying because bond yields are down because... ...

It'll be on 18 September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013
... This good news comes on top of Spain's manufacturing PMI jumping to a two-year high in the same month. Not just that, Bloomberg also reports that in March, "Spain registered its first trade surplus since records began being kept in 1971". Sweet! It's ...

Out of sight, out of mind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013
... economic growth outlook it slashed to minus 0.6% from minus 0.1% six months ago. Yes sir, it's the eurozone. According to Bloomberg, the Stoxx Europe 600 index "is is heading for a 2.3 percent advance in May, extending its longest streak of monthly gains ...

Volatile safe-haven bonds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2013
... returned -- from 2.17% the day before when QE unwind speculations were hush, hush. And just for a brief of history lesson, Bloomberg reports that the 10-year T-bond yield "had climbed to 2.23 percent, the highest level since April 5, 2012" yesterday. ...

Variety of strategies needed for all-weather outperformance

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2013
... identifies thematic drivers which that are wrongly priced by the market. "We get access to 95% of information from our Bloomberg screens and can get the rest from the internet," continued Lowenstein. The single biggest position in the fund, which is ...

Austerity can be hazardous to your health

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2013

Down, down, dollar down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2013
... exports. Monsieur Druckenmiller is not one to be taken lightly for apart from that US$1 billion he made for dear George, Bloomberg says that he's "the billionaire hedge-fund manager who returned an average of 30 percent a year from 1986 through 2010". ...

Not strong enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2013
... night and put the fear in the market eyes by reviving speculation of an earlier than expected Fed exit from QE. In a Bloomberg television interview, Pres. Plosser declared that, "I'd like to stop but I would particularly like to see us begin to slow ...