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Bear market end in sight: AMP Capital

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012
... the secular bear market may be coming to an end, according to AMP Capital's Shane Oliver. Since the galling crash of the dotcom bubble in the summer of 2000, the stock market has struggled to provide investors with any predictable returns. Investors ...

Bad news sells

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2012
Don't bother reading today about what Wall Street did last night - it didn't. 'Twas another DD (dull day) folks. Nothing new -- just that what's now become a too familiar refrain of investors fearing slowing global growth counterbalanced by hope that ...

Equity value - cheap or the new normal?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012
... in Japan over the past decade?" Greenspan made this remark back in December 1996 in the midst of what we now know as the dotcom bubble. Based on my back of the envelope calculations, US Treasuries are currently trading at a P/E of 65.5. Their long-term ...

Dip buyers buy the dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2012
... in retail spending over the past 21 months (it fell by a small 0.05% in May 2011). We last saw this behaviour during the dotcom euphoria of 1998-2000. This flies in the face of those who quickly turned sour on America after one month's disappointing ...

Happy days

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2012
... 1990's recession and US Savings & Loan Crisis, late 1990's Asian Financial Crisis/LTCM bankruptcy/Russian debt default, 2000 dotcom bubble burst, September 2001 terrorist attacks on the US, 2008 GFC. These are but a few known "we're doomed" moments in ...

Money, money, money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2010

Watching the A$ watch the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 SEP 2010
... history, the sharp depreciation of the Australian dollar shielded us from the Asian financial crisis, the bursting of the dotcom bubble and the GFC. The same way as the Australian dollar's recent appreciation is now saving the Australian economy from ...

Bond rush

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 AUG 2010
Another week, another bad start for Wall Street as the bears continue to loiter the financial playground, scaring the bulls away from the equities roller coaster ride and directing them into the bond market fun house. With no major data release out ...

Tale of two extremes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2010
... second week of March - history offered exactly the opposite lesson. That is, to sell, sell, sell. I speak of course of the dotcom bubble of the late 1990s. In contrasts to the extreme investor pessimism that characterised the mood heading into the 9 ...

Change of heart

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2010
... to hit an intra-day low of US$0.8228 in October 2000. Whatever the reason - whether it is because of the bursting of the dotcom bubble in 2000 or greater acceptance of the euro as a currency or the fixing of teething problems of unification - the euro ...