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Dip-buying pays

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2014
... were three. Geo-political risks remain. People are still killing people in the Ukraine, in Gaza, in Libya, in Syria and in Iraq. This is a wild card for the markets, it also reminds me of Bob Dylan's classic, "... how many times must the cannon balls ...

Arrows and more arrows

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2014
... that geo-political risk has never left since early March when Russia annexed Crimea or Syria before that (and now we have Iraq (again), Gaza (again) and Libya (again)), the headlines just chose to ignore them when body counts do not go beyond their normal ...

Life's a bargain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014
... few days when Netanyahu was bombing Palestine- Hamas militants or not. And these exclude the murdering still going on in Iraq and Syria. The rational investor in me takes delight at this new turn of events... every crisis is an opportunity after all. ...

Mission accomplished?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2014
... A£1.14). To be sure, to be sure, Captain Carney doesn't want to do a George W. when on 1 May 2003 he declared the mission in Iraq "Mission Accomplished" complete with banners and all......only to say later (in January 2009) that, "Clearly, putting 'Mission ...

US bond yields zipped by ZIRP?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
... per month." Could it be that investors are seeking the safety of US Treasuries amidst the on-going geo-political crisis in Iraq and the Ukraine, concerns over the stock market's valuation, doubts over the global recovery or more specifically, the uncertainty ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
... and S&P 500 edged to fresh records with the chances rising for GE's acquisition of parts of France's Alstom and fighting in Iraq lifting oil prices. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 25.62 (0.15 per cent) on Friday to 16,947.08, a new high. The S&P ...

But they said it was Iraq

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
... mention of that which was finger-pointed for yesterday's sharp fall on Wall Street. Yes, Virginia there wasn't any mention of Iraq. Wall Street rebounded overnight despite continuing - nay, escalating -- tensions in Iraq (there done, Iraq mentioned) ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2014
... their highest pace since the market crashed six years ago. But the data were overshadowed by concerns over the conflicts in Iraq and Ukraine, CommSec market analyst Steven Daghlian said. "The focus is still on the conflict that we're seeing in Iraq and ...

Wall Street is in a spin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2014
Wall Street down... on Iraq... on escalating Middle East tensions... Sounds about quite right 'eh Virginia? After all, an escalation of conflict in the land of the sand dunes would lift the price of what's underneath those sand dunes - oil. This, in ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2014
... and S&P 500 edged to fresh records with the chances rising for GE's acquisition of parts of France's Alstom and fighting in Iraq lifting oil prices. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 25.62 (0.15 per cent) on Friday to 16,947.08, a new high. The S&P ...