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Not a jobless double-dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2010
Double-dip here we come! Yes Virginia, we're on our way back to the abyss. This, if you believe the talking heads and the written words on the financial media after the latest update on US employment hit trading screens last Friday night. The numbers. ...

Squared

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 AUG 2010
Be there or be square! No Virginia, investors weren't there on Wall Street last night, but they've more than squared (their positions). This morning's news tell the story of selling on Wall Street because of -- according to The Age - " A surprisingly ...

Good newer news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2010
Out with the old (news), in with the less older. Yes Virginia, this is the way that economic data are tumbling these days. But overall, they confirm the weakness of the ancient second quarter economy, an improvement in the current one and perhaps even ...

Unusually certain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUL 2010
... about strong second quarter US company profit announcements and forecasts (and positive European economic news). Yes, Virginia. According to news reports, these were behind last night's surge in equity markets. But company earnings reports were also ...

Wall Street takes a dive

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2010
... seconds in the first round of their IBO cruiserweight world title showdown last night, so it was for Wall Street. No Virginia, it didn't take as short as the 29 seconds it took before Briggs hit the canvass... but the result was the same. Share prices ...

New-found optimism

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2010
... that if it's not going up, it must be headed down. Negative data are magnified... positive ones are spun negatively. Yes Virginia, in this day and age of instant everything, investors and speculators want instant gains too. They want their profits in ...

Waiting to see

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2010
... houses for sale at the end of May was 213,000. This represents a supply of 8.5 months at the current sales rate." Yes, Virginia, that wasn't a typo it plunged by 32.7 per cent in May and the annual rate of 300,000 units is the lowest level on record ...

The art of war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUN 2010
... "experts" were falling all over themselves - and then some - euphorically welcoming China's revaluation of its currency. Yes, Virginia if you were watching the news yesterday, flipping through the dailies or clicking over web pages you could be forgiven ...

A stitch in time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2010
... low-value-added stuff to the rest of the world." And, "Markets are going to like" Beijing's announcement. Yes it's all good Virginia. Because as IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn explains, deciding to give its currency flexibility "will help ...

Stimulate and die

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2010
... financial markets' two-day love-in with Big Ben Bernanke appears to be indicating -- loved one day, ignored the next. Yes Virginia, although there's nothing new between his comments he made at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars the ...