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The art of fighting without fighting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... commitment to also using unconventional instruments within its mandate." Financial markets saw that it was good. The Euro Stoxx 50 index climbed by 0.5% and bond yields fell. Italian 10-year bond yields dropped to as low as 3.25% -- the lowest since ...

Just jokin' Putin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014
... more than recovering the 0.74% it lost as Putin "exercised". So did the FTSE-100 index - up 1.7% from down 1.5%. The Euro Stoxx 600 is off by just 0.2% over the past two days - up 2.1% from down 2.3%. The All ordinaries index is down all of 0.1% over ...

Traffic light trade

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014
... points of the Chinese economy in the past two years." Amber. That's the flashing light for the Eurozone equities. The Euro Stoxx 50 index barely budged (up 0.03% overnight). This is because Markit's flash PMI reading for the region was neither here nor ...

Kim playing Duke Nukem is the bigger worry

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2013
... trouble now. Wall Street's down big time - the Dow's down by 0.8% and the S&P 500 slid by 1.1% -- along with Europe (Euro Stoxx 50 off 1.5% at the close) overnight. Asia beware when your markets open today. But short of the Bank of Japan (BOJ) and its ...

Just another ordinary day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2013
... depending on which news agency you follow. But let's put this in perspective. The headline stems from the 0.2% dip in the Euro Stoxx 600 index overnight. Yes, it's just a dip. Yes, it's the third straight day of "dips" -- totalling a heart stopping minus ...

Temper, temper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2013
... All Ords, up 8.4%; even a deeper than expected recession in the Eurozone couldn't stop its benchmark index, the DJ/Euro Stoxx index from climbing 1.3%. The game is changing alright, it's shifting away from defense. The bond markets are losing. The Citigroup ...

Time to fear?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013
... those who became greedy in 2012 were handsomely rewarded. The S&P 500 gained 13.4%, the All Ords rose by 13.5%, the DJ Euro Stoxx by 15.5%, the Nikkei-225 by 22.9% and even the Shanghai Composite Index notched a still positive 3.2%. This year, it looks ...

Uncertainly certain RBA cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2012
... optimism over the further signs of a rebound in the world's second biggest economy prevailed. And then I woke up. The Euro Stoxx-50's 1.3% rally became a mere 0.3% uptick at the close while the S&P 500 went from a plus 0.5% to a minus 0.5%. This is because ...

Coming in 2014: Aussie recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2012
... week or more. Huh? From the time Steen published his prediction (20 Dec 2011) to its lowest point last June, the DJ Euro Stoxx index lost only 5.5%. 3 A yet-unannounced candidate takes the White House. Who? 5 Basel III and regulation force 50 bank nationalisations ...

It's raining, it's pouring good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2012
... equity markets around the world going on the up and up. The S&P 500 closed by more than 1% higher last night, the DJ Euro Stoxx-50 ended 2.53% higher (topped by a 3.41% jump in Spanish stocks), the FTSE-100 gained 1.1% and Japan's Nikkei-225 index finished ...