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JMK rules

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
... markets' reaction to the current events that normally would sap optimism out of any rational human investor. Inured? Yes Virginia, you're well aware of all the troubles that have come our way since the year 2011 started. But instead of a rout, developed ...

Roubini defects

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 FEB 2011
... wounds. But the financial world knows the grizzlies are beat when Dr. Gloom and Doom himself raises the white flag. Yes, Virginia, this is no bull (pun definitely intended), in a CNBC interview, Dr. Nouriel Roubini announced his tranformation into a ...

Cycling up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 FEB 2011
... the weekend hoping to glean clarity on America's future, the latest non-farm payrolls report outing provided none. Yes, Virginia, both the bulls and the bears would be claiming, "I told you so!" Pessimists would point you to the number on the report ...

Levy disaster

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 JAN 2011

Haste makes waste

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 JAN 2011
... this movie before. Most of you have too. It was shown on monitors near you at about this time last year. Yes, my dear Virginia, the film, "The Fed and other developed country central banks will start withdrawing policy - possibly as early as the second ...

Year of the Bunny

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2011
... indications are that financial markets are in for another period of increased volatility in this, the year twenty eleven. Yes Virginia, brace for more hops, skips and falls - quite fitting that twenty eleven is also the "Year of the Rabbit" - as both ...

Shopping till unemployment drops

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2010
If there is one proof that no one can fight against nature, it is the Americans and shopping. Yes Virginia, they continue to shop in stores and and even online! And they're not only window-shopping... they are actually exchanging money for goods and ...

ECB to QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 NOV 2010
... Investors are circling around like vultures around Portugal and Spain perhaps until the whole of Europe burns. Oh yes, Virginia, there's a niggling feeling that ultimately Europa will be raped and this would cause untold losses everywhere - for the governments ...

Whac-a-mole 2.0

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
... version where instead of only financial institutions, whole national government's heads are included for extra fun. Yes Virginia, just when we thought that the Fed has whack the head of deflation and unemployment in the United States of America with ...

Vanguard chairman to retire

MEDIA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2010
... the end of the year, the company announced. Duffield joined Vanguard in 1980 from the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Virginia, where he served in economic research. His first role at the firm was as an assistant to Vanguard President and founder John ...