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Kim playing Duke Nukem is the bigger worry

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2013
... fall sharply on U.S. growth concern," printed Reuters. "U.S. Stocks Fall as Energy, Financials Tumble on Economy," says Bloomberg. And just so we have everything covered, "Stocks slide on North Korea fears, Fed comments," was CNN Money's take on last ...

I was there!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
... Russians) are lining up to take their money out of ATMs, Americans are getting their old ATMs re-filled. According to Bloomberg, "More American homeowners will be able to use their properties as cash machines again after real estate equity jumped last ...

Asset allocation shifts as EM turns strategic: MFS

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2013
... be invested in emerging markets, but what should my allocation be to emerging markets," Melendez said. According to Bloomberg emerging market stocks fell to a 3-month low this month with the MSCI Emerging Markets Index lost 3.8% this year, compared with ...

Falling BRICs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013
... underwater. Brazilian equities are down by 7.5% to date, Russia's off 3.1%, India's shed 2.9% and China is 0.5% lower. Bloomberg reports that this is because domestic BRIC investors are taking their money out of their domestic bourses. "Trading by Brazilian ...

Ben's your uncle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2013
... 2013 US growth forecast of 2.0% by 0.5% as a result of the "$85 billion in spending cuts...due to begin tomorrow". (Bloomberg, 28 February). And if you thought the IMF's cut unkind, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) was meaner. At the end of Feb ...

So stupid it could actually make money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2013
... reported to have demanded a bigger tax on deposits - 40% -- before they cough up a,-3 billion to aid Cyprus. According to Bloomberg, deputy parliamentary leader of Merkel's Christian Democratic Union party, Michael Fuchs, asked in an interview with BBC ...

Need action on diversity not just a policy: ACSI

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013
... This ratio however matches the proportion of women on European and US company boards, according to reports from the Bloomberg and Forbes news services. As low as these proportions are, they at least far exceed the proportion of women chairpersons and ...

Green, green grass of home

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2013
... good as nil because actuals almost never meet expectations. They could be higher or lower and only very rarely spot on. Bloomberg reports on 9 Feb, for instance, that, "About 75 percent of the 341 S&P 500 companies that released results so far in the ...

Venezuelan market rally under question

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
... 1,549.4% (more than a thousand fold). Yes, Venezuela. The home of the late President Hugo Chavez. The man who, according to Bloomberg BusinessWeek, "...has seized more than 1,000 companies or their assets, leveraged soaring oil prices to play hardball ...

Can't help falling in love with stocks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
... buying is now 50-to-1 - a monthly record. So far the mass delusion is holding. This corresponds to data compiled by Bloomberg that showed the 3-month average insider sales-to-buy ratio rising to a 2-year high of 12 sells to 1 buy. Pavilion Global Markets ...