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No greed, no fear, no volume

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2012
Boring! If there's one word to describe last week's financial market activity, this is it. Sure, sure Virginia. You, I and Irene began doubting the global growth outlook anew midweek last week - that it would be lower than expectations - following disappointing ...

Wobble gobbles

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2012
Looks like investors are again getting the hippy, hippy shake. Yes, Virginia, investors are seemingly unsure which way to go from here. Continue gobbling (stocks) or start wobbling. You'll get that same feeling when you look at Wall Street's performance ...

No fear no greed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2012
... headlines that cooked Wall Street's - and most other equity markets' - and commodities' goose over the past 24 hours. Yes Virginia, it seems that we're in another one of those O-M-G moments. But it looks like an L-O-L one to me. You'll be LOL-ing too ...

Better days are getting happier

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2012
They just keep on coming. One after another, they're rolling in. Exactamondo Virginia! More upside surprises came out of Uncle Sam's country last night. Better days are getting happier. Happy days are getting better. Wall Street is happy and it knows ...

When optimism rains, it pours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2012
... virtuous cycle that this optimism has started to spin. What a difference a few months make in the financial markets, hey Virginia? Heading into 2012, we were staring at more challenges, more pain, more money to be lost because the global economic outlook ...

Good memories

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2012
... yes, reminded because everyone and his dog already knew these, even before 2011 became 2012. But today is another day, Virginia. There were rebounds all around, from New York to Rio and old London town. "How can I forget you, when there is something ...

Better and better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2012
... spooked at yesterday's headlines and unloading some or - for heaven's sake, I hope not - all of their holdings. Told you Virginia, it was just a matter of financial market commentators trying to rationalise what's just plain noise. And if there had been ...

Good not great

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2012
... entertainment during these "lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer, these days of soda, and pretzels and beer". Don't know about you Virginia, but have you noticed that while Wall Street's going up, up, up and away - you read my report yesterday, didn't you? ...

Thrilla in Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2012
... theatres near us, it would have been another 'ho-hum' moment in terms of headlines and financial market performance. No Virginia, I refused to be drawn into the whys and the wherefores of "The Itchy and Scratchy Show". We, the people, don't get a vote ...

Waiting for the midnight hour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 FEB 2012
... this and so far all we have is wishing and hoping and praying that all those seated around the negotiating table Yes Virginia, there's still no news out on whether the EU finmins did or didn't - agree to give Greece a new lease on life, that is. But ...