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Smaller QE2 is not all that bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2010
... Well as it's turning out, the QE2 might be enough to buy just one Turkey - the country not the one carved up for Thanksgiving - after all. If it came form any other source, I would quickly dismiss it as plain rumour mongering. But no! It was the venerable ...

Debt load

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2009
... also at risk - but by and large, this was largely ignored. Life went on - nothing was standing in the way of the Thanksgiving celebrations in the US - and Wall Street went on its merry way. In fact, over the past few days, speculation ran rampant that ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2009
... Jones Industrial Average fell 154.48 points, or 1.48 per cent, to 10,309.92 as Wall Street returned from Thursday's Thanksgiving holiday. All 30 Dow components ended in the red after the blue-chip index closed on Wednesday at its highest level since ...

Posh playground turns sandpit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2009
Hold that turkey! Put that cork back into the champagne bottle! Thanksgiving has been hijacked! If you don't standstill, we sink. Dubai World reportedly intends to ask its creditors to "standstill" and extend maturities of its about US$59 billion debt ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2009
... Ordinaries had fallen 13.4 points, or 0.28 per cent, to 4,727.6. NEW YORK - Wall Street was closed overnight for the Thanksgiving holiday. Markets reopen on Friday night. On Wednesday, the Dow Jones industrial average rose 30.69 points, or 0.29 per cent ...

Small thanks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2009
... case that the simplest explanation is likely to be true. And this is that Americans are busily stuffing turkeys for Thanksgiving dinner - to give thanks for the bountiful harvest they have made so far this year. Others perhaps are also busy. Busily digging...to ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2009
... unemployment claims to the lowest level of the year and a rise in new home sales. Trading volume was thin ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday, which can exacerbate swings in the market. The US government said new claims for unemployment insurance fell ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2009
There was little movement on the Australian sharemarket at noon with trading in the US slowing down for Thanksgiving on Thursday. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 10.9 points, or 0.23 per cent, at 4,695.90, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

Thanks for now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2009
'Twas another big night on Wall Street as the countdown to Thanksgiving Day begins. And the Fed would have it no other way. But first let's take a look at the hard data. Give thanks for Americans are again buying houses. US existing home sales jumped ...

Thank you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2008
Wall Street celebrates Thanksgiving Day today - a 400-year tradition celebrated by Americans commemorating the pilgrims' gratitude for a bountiful harvest. Given the way the global economies are shaping up, Thanksgiving 2008 offers only patchy harvests. ...