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The fat lady in concert on Sunday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2015
What would the fat lady sing on Sunday? Would it be a rendition of Andrea Bocelli's 'con me partiro' (time to say goodbye) quickly followed by Nina Gordon's 'the end of the world'? Or would weight-challenged crooner sing the Everly Brothers' 'I give ...

Greece in crisis (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2015
... country could default." The sky is falling... again... like it did back in February. Here are the blow-by-blows from The Telegraph four months ago. "The 'sword of Damocles' is hanging over Greece's banks and the impasse with its creditors could now bring ...

Greece's bundle of debt

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2015
... a,-4.8 billion due in July and a,-3.5 billion the month after. And how does the IMF feel about this? According to 'The Telegraph', "The decision to bundle the payments to the IMF brings forward a decision that was coming anyway. EU sources say the Greeks ...

What might trigger a sell-off?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
Impressive! Nah Virginia, I refer not to the big bouncy bouncy Wall Street and European equity markets did last night - which almost instantaneously affirmed the rant I scribbled on this space yesterday that "the bad and the bad and the bad" that spooked ...

Seesaw on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
In droves they returned... the bargain hunters, the bottom fishers and the dip buyers - turning the previous day's see on Wall Street into last night's saw. All are thanking the friendly International Monetary Fund (IMF) for opening up another entry ...

Everything but the kitchen sink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
Take that... and that... and that! Yes, Virginia, the European Central Bank (ECB) didn't disappoint market expectations - heavens forbid if it did - and acted, giving it all it's got, except for the proverbial kitchen sink (this it reserves for later). ...

Promises promises and broken promises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
Were you not as surprised as I was? I bet you weren't Virginia, not even your uncle and his dog, when the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) announced that it was doing nothing - it left the official cash rate steady at 2.5%. While the RBA mostly stuck ...

The scares that weren't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
Down on Putin one day, up the next. Down on Yellen one day, up the next. Financial reports now talk of investors re-assessing their thinking of what they thought they understood US Federal Reserve Chair (in this politically correct age) Janet Yellen ...

There is fear in the market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 OCT 2013

Withdrawal anxiety

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2013