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Dummy spit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2009
... this. The same way he did the US Savings & Loan Crisis of the late 1980s, the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997/98 and the dotcom bust in the early 2000s. He survived all these. He wasn't called 'the maestro' for nothing! Now many blame dear old Alan and ...

Elusive 10K

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2009
... has seen this all before. It first breached 10K back in March 1999 during the heydays that was later to be known as the dotcom bubble. It generally traded sideways after reaching as high as 11,722.98 points on the 14th of January of the following year. ...

Fed brawn, RBA brains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2009
... adroitness in handling the crises of recent history -- the Asian Financial Crisis, LTCM collapse, Russian default, the dotcom bubble, the US recession of 2002. The RBA shielded Australia all through these episodes of market turbulence. And it looks like ...

Meredith Whitney

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2009
... of another star analyst, Abbey Joseph Cohen, of Goldman Sachs who rose to fame during the bull market leading up to the dotcom bust. Her star burnt out after persisting on her bullish views as the dotcoms were crashing in early 2000 and cindered when ...

Five minutes of sunshine

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2009
'Don't fight the Fed!' 'The trend is your friend!' These market aphorisms are again coming back in fashion. Upward momentum in equity markets all around the world have been steadily gathering pace since hitting what is turning out to be the lowest point ...

It's all about China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2009
The times...they really have changed. Will this be Generation Next's new economic order. I speak of course about the fast increasing dominance of China in the world stage. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept interest rates unchanged at 3 per cent ...

Surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2009
Surprise! The exclamation would almost always put a smile on anyone's face especially when the expected worst turns into a welcome better. Financial markets have been bombarded day after day after day with news that went from bad to worse to worst for ...

Regulate...then regulate some more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2009
... became better after that. The US has not suffered any more recessions, the 1987 Stock market Crash did not happen, the dotcom bubble continues to bubble, the Asian Crisis was just a figment of the imagination, and LTCM - the forerunner of too big to ...

Drinking is bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
... 1998 spread to the economies of Latin America and Russia. The Australian economy slowed but avoided a recession when the dotcom bubble burst, when September 11 threatened borders in 2001, when the US went into a recession in 2002. It is in every economy's ...

Bad news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2009
In a weekend interview on ABC Television, US National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers said "We'll see what happens" and "We'll do what's necessary." This is one of the reasons why I've turned. For once, I believe the powers that be. There ...