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Optimism may not be enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2009
... start flowing again, let's take a look at what's happening across the Atlantic. Like their counterparts in most part of the globe, Eurozone equities have welcomed the massive liquidity injections by both fiscal and monetary authorities. Equity markets ...

What China wants China gets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2009
... the first three quarters of 2009 soared by 33.3 per cent year-on-year. Lend, lend, lend. While banks in other parts of the globe were still reluctant to extend credit, Chinese authorities only have to utter the word 'lend' and off a-lending its banks ...

25 bps to win Melbourne Cup

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2009
... year - than America, which remains in strife. But the US - shrinking as it may be -- remains the biggest economy of the globe and what happens to it will have global repercussions. And although positive signs have been coming in, the recovery remains ...

Doom dollar

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2009
... American dollar replaced the British pound in the 1930s as the world's major reserve currency following Britain's fall from the globe's biggest lender to a borrower. Back then America was a major international creditor. Now it's one of the largest debtor ...

Money flows lead to Africa

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2009
... to 43 per cent in 2008, noted the report. The UN also noted a "marked downturn" in FDI by private equity funds across the globe - not surprisingly it is a phenomenon caused by the demise of access to easy financing. At the other end of the spectrum ...

The waiting game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2009
... ensure the GFC does not happen ever again. Can't blame Wall Street - and by extension every other financial market around the globe - for playing the waiting game this week. Not when talks of exits are on the table. Timing is everything. While exit strategy ...

Three wise men - maybe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2009
... some time." Which is also true given the continued job losses not only in the US economy but elsewhere in many parts of the globe, tighter lending standards, falling house prices, etc. But in the end, President Obama's warning about taking away the crutches ...

Expect the unexpected

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2009
... now out of recession. Australia never had one. And the US and the UK are getting there. Anyone who still doubt that the globe would recover only need to look at last week's equity market trading activity. Despite the slight fall on Wall Street at the ...

Aussie dollar rises to restore equilibrium

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2009
... Aussie has jumped to around US$0.8550 - a 42 per cent jump from the US$0.6036 it dropped to last 27 October 2008 when the globe was in chaos. Current target: A$ equals US$0.90 or parity. Perhaps, perhaps not. Haven't we seen all this before? Yes, we ...

The Venus solution

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2009
Like everywhere else around the globe, Japan's equity markets have rebounded from the extreme pessimism that marked the low point of the global financial crisis back in March 2009. At the end of August, the Nikkei-225 index has risen by 48.7 per cent ...