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Rejoice for May has gone away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2011
... to the landscape - but one could sense the smile on investors' faces if one cared to look. It's risk on one more time Virginia. Wall Street's up - big time. Europe's up - big time. Emerging market equities are up - big time. So too are the prices of ...

Can't hear you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011
There's more negative news out overnight. What? There's more bad news out overnight. What? Can't hear you. Yes Virginia, if you're looking for reasons to sell there were big numbers out last night that on other days scream SELL! But Wall Street would ...

Just replace because with despite

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2011
Now you see? Investors really do see what they want to see. Oh yes Virginia, the drip, drip, drip of economic reports and other news twittered, facebooked and blogged all over cyberspace were enough to send any bear to bear utopia - but they didn't. ...

Bad news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011
... the past 24 hours than over the past few "days of fear" combined, yet most equity markets ended on the up and up. No Virginia, I'm not talking about ol' Dominique Strauss-Kahn learning that he can't do what he allegedly did to a maid in a Manhattan Hotel ...

Nobody wins against the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011
... piling up don't they? And from the looks of them, they're everywhere. Let me take you to a bad news tour around the world Virginia, starting from our very own land DownUnder. If you're watching carefully, you'll notice that recent eco releases out of ...

May day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
... Sliding oil price. They were the culprits! They sucker punched Wall Street down to its knees while we were sleeping. No Virginia, not again. Don't tell me that just days after the "no one can deny" good news brought by the April US non-farm payrolls ...

A-dollar one-point-seven-o

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
Destination: Highway one point seven zero. Yes Virginia, this is what the current euphoria on the Australian dollar has led to - the currency is now extrapolated to reach 1.70 against the US dollar by 2014. According to The Australian newspaper, not ...

Yikes the ECB hikes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2011
... when the central bank of the region with a single currency went ahead and raised interest rates last week. Darn straight Virginia, the ECB has just handed down its first interest rate move in almost two years. It raised its refinancing rate to 1.25 per ...

Fed money drives black swans away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
... uncertainty, if you believe the scaremongers there's another one looming and its name is ' US government shutdown'. Yes Virginia, the Democrats and the GOP are currently scrambling in Washington to forge a compromise on government budget cuts else the ...

The other emerging market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2011
... and their money - particularly when set against the backdrop of what is, at best, slow growing developed economies. Yes Virginia, bring up the subject of emerging markets and in all probability you'll be hearing discussions China... or India... or the ...