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Fall on the Wall

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2012
... only wish. "I don't think so." This was St. Louis Fed's James Bullard's response. Not to me being read on The Street, but to CNBC's question as to whether "a major" program of buying assets, or quantitative easing, is warranted. So there! QE's come and ...

PE firms Myanmar bound

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2012
... infrastructure and development opportunities. Private equity firms across the region are already preparing their entrance, with CNBC recently estimating there is US$500 million being lined up. Firms planning fund allocations to the country include Leopard ...

Problem solved, not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2012
... next is it gets only a small chunk of it, which for the most part would go into plugging the deficit in its budget. Here's CNBC's take: "The vast majority of the funds in the 130-billion-euro programme will be used to finance the bond swap and ensure ...

Waiting to exhale 5

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2011
... G-20 is mulling a US$600 billion lending program for Europe through the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Just as quickly, CNBC's Steve Liesman twittered that, "Imf official denies 600b aid rumor." And where would we be without the prevailing talk of ...

Rewarding wishful thinking

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2011
... done in the member states. There is a sense of urgency among ministers and we need to move on." "Shared view" my butt. Is CNBC making up stories then when it reported that, "Finance ministers from the 27 European Union countries spent several hours discussing ...

All eyes on Germany

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2011
... rumours that littered the previous day's gossip mills proved to be lies - pure, simple, damned lies. There is no truth in the CNBC report quoting an unnamed EU official saying that a plan to leverage the EFSF - up to eight times - recapitalise banks ...

Hope trade

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2011
... together measures to help ease the region's debt crisis." Notice the common denominator? Yes, it's hope! It all began when CNBC quoted an unnamed EU official saying that a plan to leverage the EFSF up to eight times, recapitalise banks and issue Euro ...

Same time last year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2011
... too dovish enough. More so when President of the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank Richard Fisher announced at an interview on CNBC that he would oppose any suggestion at QE3. I'm not so sure for I've learnt from history. If at all, the dissents and arguments ...

Roubini defects

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 FEB 2011
... beat when Dr. Gloom and Doom himself raises the white flag. Yes, Virginia, this is no bull (pun definitely intended), in a CNBC interview, Dr. Nouriel Roubini announced his tranformation into a bull. "I think tactically for the next few months equities ...

Been there, done that

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2010
... to fall moving forward (thanks Julia for making this phrase unhip), why don't we try historical precedence? The folks at CNBC cite a research by Standard & Poor's that observed, "a bad January often portends a poor full-year return, but when that bad ...