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30 days hath September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2013
... - a 15-month high - which, along with the jump in HSBCs flash estimate of 50.1 over the same month, puts a zip to hard landing speculations.A Please pardon me for repeating this, "I told you so!" Many times.A Over and over.A Each time the words China ...

Nothing below seven percent

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2013
... cares what I say, I'm only half Chinese anyways - making the probability of moi being correct 50/50. So out with the hard landing scenario (again). Only a few months (or is it weeks?), I read somewhere growth projections of 4.3%. This certainly is within ...

Mother of all hard landings and other BSes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2013
Can you feel it? Can you feel it? Can you feel it? Australia appears to have started this new week, new month, new quarter new financial year with a little bit more stride in its steps. This could be because of the world's biggest central bankers' comforting ...

Still the best game in town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2013
... growth, the Eurozone remains in recession and the debt crisis could re-emerge at anytime, China's still not out of the hard landing woods, emerging markets are slowing on 'beggar thy neighbour policies' by their advanced economy neighbours. Yet somehow ...

Can't help falling in love with stocks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
... the spooks that littered the journey on the way to where we are now. Sovereign debt crisis and euro collapse, China hard landing, double-dips, triple dips, 'new normal' (forever slow growth), Jasmine Revolution, Japanese earthquake/tsunami/nuclear meltdown ...

China's turn to provide buy opportunities

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2013
... scares of a European debt crisis flashback. This week, China's the culprit. It'll be slowing again. No, make that a hard landing while you're at it for what else could send most markets on a tailspin if not thoughts of another crash land. The Shanghai ...

Any reason will do

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013
... mint. It had only been sidelined by the bigger fishes that need frying - European debt crisis, US fiscal cliff, China hard landing, Gilllard early - really, really early - announcement of 14 September elections. But major central banks around the world ...

On positive contagion, reflation and the great rotation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2013
... financial market turmoil that'll spark a US double dip - exacerbated of course, by the fiscal cliff -- and a Chinese hard landing that'll keep emerging markets crawling for growth. We're all doomed! Don't look now...but contagion's happening once again ...

Good, better, best

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
... half of 2013." If Markit is correct, this is even better than the ECB's late 2013 growth comeback. The better. China hard landing is dead. In addition to the improved data on retail sales, industrial production, exports, fixed asset investment we've ...

Repressed rally

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2013
... twitted back then that, "My paper "2013 Could Batter Markets With a Perfect Storm": EZ crisis, US double dip, China/EM hard landing, MidEast war." This is that year. But if you believe him, you would have also believed him when he predicted that America ...