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There's the good news and there's the good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2012
... jumping with joy and wringing their hands with the laundry list of negative news that came out overnight. Here are a few Bloomberg headlines I copied and pasted earlier (thanks Bloomberg): Cooling U.S. Employment Market Takes Toll on Consumer Confidence ...

Wow on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2012
... point of view (and my attachment to JMK- John Maynard Keynes) - more focus on growth and less on austerity. According to Bloomberg, "Chancellor Angela Merkel backed European Central Bank President Mario Draghi's call to focus on spurring economic growth ...

It's all in the spin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2012
... cactus... why have investors continued to buy their debt? Are they masochists or they just simply have a death wish? Bloomberg reports that, "Demand for the 10-year Spanish debt at today's auction was 2.42 times the amount sold, compared with 2.17 at ...

HSBC announces first int'l RMB bond

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2012
... China or Hong Kong, with proceeds from the bonds either used locally or taken offshore with approval from authorities. Bloomberg has reported today that more than half of HSBC orders for the RMB bond were coming from European investors.

Missing the forest for the daily grind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2012
... higher costs arising from Intel's investment in three factories to "run on the new 22-nanometer production process (Bloomberg)". And while we're at it, why don't we discount the fact that 80% of company's in the S&P 500 that have reported, so far topped ...

In it to win it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2012
... sleeping. Spain sold a,-3.18 worth of bills overnight, more than the government's targeted a,-3 billion. And, according to Bloomberg, "Demand for the 12-month bills was 2.9 times the amount sold, compared with 2.14 times last month. Demand for the longer ...

QE going, going ...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012
... service sector continues to expand - above 50 - and that even with the lower March reading, the index, according to Bloomberg, remains higher than the 55.3 average "during the six-year expansion ended in December 2007". And by the by, the employment ...

No QE, not bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2012
... could you do this to us BFF? It's all over the headlines: "U.S. Stocks Fall as Fed Minutes Damp Stimulus Expectation" (Bloomberg); "Wall St slides as Fed dashes stimulus hopes" (AFR); "Wall Street Slumps as QE3 Hopes Cool" (Fox Business); "Wall Street ...

No greed, no fear, no volume

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2012
... the second-lowest volume for any day this year. The daily volume average so far in 2012 is 6.84 billion." And as per Bloomberg, "Shares changing hands on all U.S. exchanges slumped 30 percent to 5.9 billion today from last week. The average volume in ...

No fear no greed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2012
"U.S. Stocks Fall as Commodities Decline on China Concern" -Bloomberg "Chinese growth concerns drag equities, $A lower" -Australian Financial Review "Investors Should Be Getting Out' of Stocks" -Bloomberg TV These were the Chicken Little headlines that ...