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Happy days

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2012
... 1930s Depression, 1970's Oil Embargo, early 1990's recession and US Savings & Loan Crisis, late 1990's Asian Financial Crisis/LTCM bankruptcy/Russian debt default, 2000 dotcom bubble burst, September 2001 terrorist attacks on the US, 2008 GFC. These ...

Fixville here we come

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011
... Look back to, say, the Great Depression of the 1930s, or the Latin American crisis of the early 1980s, the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s, or even the recent GFC (although some say this has not yet completely played out) and many others. In ...

Greed is good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
... a few months after the VIX hit extremes. Below are the scares and the accompanying VIX readings. 1997: Asian Financial Crisis - VIX reading 48.64 1998: LTCM Bankruptcy - 49.53 2001: Terrorist Attacks on the US - 49.35 2002: US Recession; Tech Crash ...

Laissez faire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2011
... currency controls to stem the attack on the ringgit, now they prescribe the very thing abhorred during the Asian financial crisis of 1997/98. Talks of capital control management would have still been a no-no had the global financial crisis not shown ...

Japan shall overcome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2011
... was still there. For financial markets there were a host of other big crises in contemporary times - the Asian financial crisis of 1997/98, September 11 terrorist attacks on the US in 2001, the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, Hurricane Katrina in 2005 ...

Rise of Asia bonds: Temasek

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 30 NOV 2010
... around US$5 trillion at the end of last year. The figure is nearly 15 times the level at the start of the Asian financial crisis in 1997. According to Asian Development Bank figures, the total outstanding Asian issuance (ex-Japan) continued to grow to ...

Gotta love gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2010
... Gold prices spiked during periods of market stress such as during the stock market crash of 1987 and the Asian financial crisis in 1997/98 and of course when the global financial crisis hit. But despite still lingering uncertainties, the financial markets ...

Watching the A$ watch the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 SEP 2010
... economy so well. In recent history, the sharp depreciation of the Australian dollar shielded us from the Asian financial crisis, the bursting of the dotcom bubble and the GFC. The same way as the Australian dollar's recent appreciation is now saving ...

Fearing September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2010
... a 3.6 returned that month. The S&P 500 also produced strong monthly gains of 5.3 per cent in 1997 (the Asian financial crisis) and 6.2 per cent (Russian default and the collapse of Long-term Capital Management). In the current financial market environment ...

Bond rush

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 AUG 2010
... average annual 30-year return of 9.5 per cent. Yes, this includes the 1987 crash, the 1990/91 recession, Asian financial crisis, the Russian default, the bursting of the dtocom bubble, the 2001 US recession and September 11, and the GFC, among others. ...