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Reverse contagion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2011
The Grinch may be stealing Xmas from Europe but Santa Claus is coming to town in America. Yes folks, we're still so many sleeps away from the 12 days of Christmas but I'm already on Christmas countdown - I'll explain why later. And yes to you too gentle ...

Buy the headline, sell the headline

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2011
... to bail worries you, you'll worry some more when you read, "EFSF limps over the line, books "over EUR3bn"" (Reuters). Yes folks, this is the rescue fund targeted to have a a,-1 trillion arsenal as "first loss" insurer of Italian and Spanish bonds. It ...

Go figure

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2011
A brand new month, a brand new scare. Yes folks, just when we thought that it's gonna be a bright (bright) sun-shiny day, along comes the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) bearing bad tidings. And if you hadn't had your fill ...

Work in no progress

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011
Make that October 26 - maybe. Yes folks the can has been kicked further down the road to nowhere. Less than five days ago -- at the end of the G20 Summit in Paris -- there was optimism in the air, there seems to be consensus among the top 20 moneymen ...

Fed policy options galore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
... trigger. Thank you Google. For Big Benny has answered this 'no more options' questions long before it became an issue. Yes folks, he listed the many, many options the Fed has on 21 November 2002. Yes 2-0-0-2 - some six years before you and I even dreamed ...

Fed move checks markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011
... interest rates in its policy statements since the GFC to "at least through mid-2013" after last night's FOMC meeting. Yes folks, the fed funds target rate will remain at between 0 and 0.25% for two more years. "The committee currently anticipates that ...

They will deal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2011
... "Stocks, Treasuries Rally on Earnings, Deficit Plan; Oil Surges" Today: "U.S. Stocks Retreat on Debt-Limit Concern" Yes folks, it's another 'what the' moment. And yes, I told you so. Remember what you read on this space yesterday, "...nearly there is ...

Recycled fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2010
... Concern; Treasuries Tumble" - Bloomberg.com. "US shares drop on China inflation worries" - Reuters via the age.com.au Yes folks, it's over cyberspace. Wall Street dropped big time at the end of last week's New York trade because... it hit the great wall ...

Loaded one-way bet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2009
Final inning. Yes folks, this is the month's last inning. Will the end days of July mark the seventh moon of 2009 as the return of the bulls? Or will it mark when the bears built up the courage to mount a comeback? Normally I would have said, it doesn't ...
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