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Add £50b, will travel

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2009

Jobs, jobs, jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2009
... deal! That seems to be the consensus reaction working their way around the domestic market these days. Big deal indeed, Virginia! But this was not always the case. Remember the not so distant past when gloomers and doomers ruled the roost? When headlines ...

Higher...higher and higher

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
... jumped by 3.6 per cent in June - the fifth straight month of gains - to stand 9.2 per cent higher than a year ago. Yes Virginia, it would be like this for some time in the US while it digs itself out of the hole it blew itself - and the rest of the world ...

Christmas in July

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2009
Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas to everyone and all! Except for the grinch bears that is. Yes, Virginia. Christmas came in July. Hope and cheer abounded in equity markets around the globe and in other risk assets. How could they not? Slow - painfully ...

Greener than green shoots

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2009
... US Commerce Department reporting greener than green shoots sighted in the housing market. Wall Street rejoiced. Yes, Virginia. Remember housing and how lending to NINJAs (No Income. No Jobs and Assets) jumpstarted the mess that is the global financial ...

Loaded one-way bet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2009
... Whatever happens in July stays in July - or in August, September, October, etc... But these aren't normal times. It's true Virginia, I have argued that the stabilisation/ebbing deceleration in economic activity that we have been presented over the past ...

Another dead feline bounce

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2009
... interest rates and withdraw the trillions of freshly minted dollars in the system, it will not until the coast is clear. Yes Virginia, I too, can spin a bearish scenario. But do I believe it? Certainly not. I've been here before and it is easy - very ...

Positive surprise beats Meredith's surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2009
... case. But markets felt good from the feel good factor from the good Goldman and Johnson earnings. At the end of the day Virginia, we are slowly but surely leaving the nightmare that was. Economic indicators are stabilising and some have already outright ...

Meredith Whitney

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2009
... primarily because they were unconvinced themselves. Remember VP Joe's ponderings about a Stimulus Mark II? You're right Virginia, there were other news out last night that Wall Street could have easily taken as excuses to continue meandering south. There ...

The times they are a'changin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2009
... data show imports falling for the tenth consecutive month and are now at their lowest level in nearly five years. Yes, Virginia, economic data is challenging enough to discern in the best of times. More so now, when economies and markets are at an inflection ...