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Fed bearing gift of QE2

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2010
... Fed! This adage has been with us for some time now and it's back again doing the rounds in the financial markets. Yes, Virginia. The chorus for QE2 keeps growing louder that Wall Street - and the world - appears to be just waiting for the official announcement. ...

Parity not quite a party

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 OCT 2010
... pride of the nation. It came oh so close to parity with the greenback. And parity is just an "i" removed from party. Yes Virginia, it's all over cyberspace... the Australian dollar is just a few small ticks away from becoming even stevens with the American ...

Good for nothing war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2010
... thousand mothers' eyes". "War! It ain't nothing but a heartbreaker. War! It's got one friend, that's the undertaker..." Yes Virginia, this long drawn-out climb out of the abyss of the deep recession has frustrated governments of all stripes and colours ...

Grand currency sale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 OCT 2010

Wonderfully wrong September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2010
... before the seventh moon of 2010 is over, the US stock market is on course for its biggest September gain in 71 years. Yes Virginia, if you've heard of statistical aberrations or exceptions to the rule, September 2010 is turning out to be just that. After ...

Watching the A$ watch the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 SEP 2010
... dollar will be gained or lost. Or perhaps, I should say, another week, another dollar gained, then lost, then... Yes Virginia, such is the financial markets' current collective myopia that while there had been a lot of shakin' goin on after every piece ...

Yen sunk but not for long

BENJAMIN ONG IS FINANCIAL STANDARD'S DAILY COLUMNIST ON THE ECONOMY  |  FRIDAY, 17 SEP 2010

True Lies

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
... most of 2010, something evil this way comes... or more accurately, the same evil returns to haunt. Europe redux. Yes Virginia, Europe is back. Back in the headlines. Back on red alert. Back to spook our pants off... this time, scarier than the first. ...

Bending it like Bernanke

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 AUG 2010
... markets. Just when we thought we've seen it all, along comes the Fed kowtowing to the whims of the financial markets. Yes Virginia, the Fed announced that it would reinvest the proceeds from its profitable portfolio of mortgage-backed securities into ...

Waiting to exhale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 AUG 2010
... meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) would conclude with a kinder surprise - a.k.a. quantitative easing. Yes Virginia, Wall Street's hoping and wishing and praying that the Fed would announce some sort of stimulus to rev up growth and ...