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No surprise in surprises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2012
... (below 50) or that it's rebounded to a two-month high indicating that easing measures are starting to take effect? And Virginia, you'll know there's really no surprise in all these surprises when you look at the VIX "fear" index. It closed at 18.97 last ...

Dickens on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2012
... before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way..." No Virginia, I must admit I haven't read Charles' (Dickens) immortal 'A Tale of Two Cities' classic but for the opening lines above and ...

Missing the forest for the daily grind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2012
... step forward, two steps back. Two steps forward, one step back. Buy. No, sell. Sell. Wait, wait, buy! Tough, ain't it Virginia? Tough-er if you're trying to put food on the table by making sense of the daily ups and downs and ups... and downs in the ...

Dip buyers buy the dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2012
... Gremlins are coming back to haunt. Or so it'll seem as you read reports reporting that, once again, we're doomed. Yes Virginia, you'll be scared off your pants to know that the S&P 500 index posted its biggest weekly loss in 2012. It fell an earth-shattering ...

Best friends forever

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012
... The S&P 500 and the Dow each jumped by 1.4% overnight in spite of another disappointing report on the jobs front. Yes Virginia, the same one that sent many scampering for the exits at the beginning of this week. Jobless claims rose by a bigger-than-expected ...

The Fed, the ECB and the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2012
Shoulda, woulda, coulda. Yes Virginia, there'll be a lot of people saying this to themselves this morning. Those who clicked on that button just because the "panic" crowd appeared to be, well, panicking. Some would even be kicking themselves as they ...

Bring it on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2012
... activity it's that Wall Street and European bourses did not slide bigger time. It would have been one hell of a buy-op, ey Virginia? Another chance to accumulate more at reduced prices. For as much as investors have again revisited the bad news of yester-months ...

No QE, not bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2012
... Slumps as QE3 Hopes Cool" (Fox Business); "Wall Street ends lower after Fed minutes" (Reuters). Sensational! Isn't it Virginia? Now all hope is lost. I'm deleting Ben from my Facebook's friends' list. But you know what "fall", "slide", "slump" the headlines ...

Can't fix what's not broken, yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2012
... to interest rates. Will they? Won't they? Cut interest rates, that is. They will, then again perhaps they won't. Yes, Virginia it's a 50-50 call. It's an even split right down the middle. Apart from being seen as a very brave soul in trying to predict ...

Boring same old, same old

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAR 2012
... City's monthly survey of manufacturing activity that found that manufacturing activity in the region remains solid. Yes, Virginia. Same old, same old. Nothing to write home about. How about I meet you at the pub say around 4PM? Or shall we make that ...