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What Wen wants, Wen gets, when Wen wants

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2012
... and the S&P/ASX 200 both fell by 0.4% - not outside the realm of their daily heartbeats. As for commodities, the UBS Bloomberg Constant Maturity Commodity Index dropped by a mammoth, gargantuan, heart-stopping 0.3% last night. All because a succession ...

Greece still matters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2012
... of private sector holders of Greek debt have agreed to exchange their old bonds into new bonds with a 53.5% haircut. Bloomberg says, it's about 85%. Now Greece is on its way to turning that 160% debt-to-GDP ratio into something around 120% by 2020. At ...

Recycled scares

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2012
... some reports, this is tantamount (I love that word) to a 75% haircut on their original investment. But according to Bloomberg, only about 20% of all bondholders have so far agreed to the deal. Bad. Because if Greece cannot get its expected 90% participation ...

TSCGEMU

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2012
... unlikely to be able to sell bonds to private investors once its bailout package runs out, according to the rating company" (Bloomberg). Yeah, and? In the words of Donald Rumsfeld, it's a "known known". It's something all of us know that we know. Let's ...

No please explain needed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2012
... the happenings on The Street while we were sleeping. According to 'expert' analysis, "S&P 500 snaps four-day advance" (Bloomberg) and the Dow gave back its hold on 13K "after Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke failed to signal fresh stimulus for the ...

No more fear - maybe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2012
... the entire spiel to surmise what it's all about, the headlines will do. "S&P 500 Rises to Highest Level Since 2008" (Bloomberg) "US STOCKS-S&P 500 posts highest close in nearly four years" (Reuters) "S&P 500 closes near four-year high" (Australian Financial ...

Waiting for the midnight hour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 FEB 2012
... second bailout package for Greece that is vital to staving off a default next month, a European Union official said. (Bloomberg). Told you the EU finmins would be helping themselves.

Not so wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
... and the slower global (China, in particular) growth outlook do not augur well for Australia's labour market. There's Bloomberg's report strengthening the view of a collapsing Chinese property market. "About 16 percent of respondents in China said in ...

Priced in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2012
... lower yield of 0.406. Sale of three and six-month French government bills also fetched lower yield. And according to Bloomberg, "The yield on France's 10-year bond dropped four basis points to 3.03 percent. Spain's 10-year yield fell four basis points ...

Wagging the dog

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2011
... further monetary easing and possibly computer-driven trading." By 0713 hours, when the Dow slipped below zero, it was Bloomberg's time to explain. "Most U.S. Stocks Fall as Fed Refrains From Additional Stimulus" was its headline. Talk of wagging the ...