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Withdrawal anxiety

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2013

Ghosts? What ghosts?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2013
... while most other equity markets around the world hit the dirt. Surely, something's wrong with Wall Street last night. How dare it put on a positive performance when the ghosts of troubles past - and present -- have come back to haunt...all at once? The ...

Is that a fiscal stimulus I smell?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013
... up...then down...then ended basically flat (minus 0.05%). Not a bad move for only a brave soul or a compulsive gambler would dare stake the farm ahead of Friday's US employment report - the stat that is tied to the outlook on whether or not the Fed could ...

It'll be on 18 September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013
"Every single day Every word you say... I'll be watching you." -Sting Wall Street down and...you guessed it, it's taper on day. And so, round and round we go, when it ends we do not know. But perhaps we do. There's now an emerging consensus that the ...

Fool's gold?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2013
... ounce, not a few expected the shiny metal to rally to around US$2,000 by year end - US$3,000 if they got lucky. But don't you dare call them optimists -- they're little leaguers compared with those predicting gold US$5,000 (BofA Merrill Lynch) and most ...

Pick your poison

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
... picture instead of the day-to-day headlines and happenings on Wall Street, we've come a long way baby. So much so, that I dare say that since the S&P 500 index bottomed on 9 March 2009, it has been on a bull run. That's if you believe the Dow Theory ...

Arrivederci Berlusconi Ciao

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2011
Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's longest-serving post prime minister has bitten the dust. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi announced his resignation a day after posting on Facebook that, "Reports of my resignation are completely unfounded and I don't know ...

U-G-L-Y

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2011
... is! Although I'm still of the horned persuasion, there's no way I could defend (spin?) the indefensible, I wouldn't even dare try. Just look at the stats. US total payrolls increased by only 54,000 heads last month. It's one big ugly disappointment. ...

Fed money drives black swans away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
... it won't be different. No worries. There seems to be no worries for the Eurozone too, even after Portugal announced that - dare they say it, it would be seeking EU/IMF financing bail out. What happened to Spain would be next in line? What happened to ...

AdviserNETgain rolls out bulk reviews

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
Advisers using BT's AdviserNETgain can now produce an unlimited number of review advice documents in one process after upgrades to the online planning solution. Darelle Jenkins, national manager AdviserNETgain, said the bulk review feature creates a ...