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Insider selling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2013
... selling! The insiders are selling! But before this let's switch over to our man on Wall Street. Hold on...our man, Mr. Bloomberg (not New York's Mayor but the "premier site for business and financial market news"), seems confused. At 5:34 AM GMT+1100 ...

Gone in 60 seconds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2013
... looked and I looked... nothing in the headlines. Not in the Wall Street Journal, Not in the Financial Times. Not on Bloomberg. Not on Reuters. Not in the Australian Financial Review. Hmmm, must be on page 8? It was over in 60 seconds! The palpitations ...

Open wide, come inside

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2013
... 49% from 26%, and "for the first time permit foreign direct investment of as much as 26 percent in pension funds..." (Bloomberg). More measures followed. Last week, India raised the ceiling on foreign purchases of Indian bonds by US$10 billion to US$75 ...

Steady as she goes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013
... that has an overriding swing factor. Here, the tea leaves are looking good. It's steady as she goes. According to a Bloomberg survey of 44 economists, most expect "Bernanke will push on with purchases of $40 billion a month of mortgage bonds and $45 ...

It's happening

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2013

Grexin Brixit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2013
... sailing until... UK Prime Minister David Cameron raises the spectre of a Brixit. Speaking at the London headquarters of Bloomberg, Cameron announced his plan for a referendum on his country's EU membership by the end of 2017 if his government is re-elected ...

Fed ECB BOJ, Unlimited

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013

Propensity for foot shooting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2013

China: economy rising, market sinking

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2012
... growth in retail spending, industrial production, exports and lending. With data like these, it's hardly surprising that Bloomberg found what it did. A poll of its subscribers last week showed that, "Confidence in China's economy is at the highest in ...

Giving thanks to thanksgiving

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2012
... day last year. Then again, if you look closely, this was because Americans had been shopping all Thanksgiving week. As Bloomberg puts it, US retailers "have turned Black Friday, once a one-day event after Thanksgiving, into a week's worth of deals and ...