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G-20 gabfest at Gyeongju

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
... blame "them" especially with the US elections just a step away. American jobs are being lost because of "them". The US economy is in a stupor because of "them". Even if it does work, America is not in a position to dictate terms and conditions. Not when ...

Pigs are bacon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2010
... Reserve could decide not to push through with QE2. These are all unpalatable choices given the current state of the US economy. Timmy's talk is cheap. That's why Wall Street closed higher. It doesn't believe him.

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2010
... Wall Street, the market closed higher after a string of strong earning reports and after the Federal Reserve said the US economy was growing at a modest rate.

QE2 or bust

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
... "...there would appear--all else being equal--to be a case for further action." There's Chicago Fed President Evans, "The US economy is best described as being in a bona fide liquidity trap" so "in my opinion, much more policy accommodation is appropriate ...

Fed bearing gift of QE2

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2010
... But what if the Fed comes bearing nothing? This is good too. "I win again." The interpretation would then be that the US economy is picking up momentum that the Fed doesn't see the need to print more US dollars. This is not hard to imagine, especially ...

QE2 to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 OCT 2010
... markets expected it to be? What then? What then would be expectations for QE3, QE4...QEn. But this is assuming that the US economy is really as weak as some purport it to be. True, this is borne out by some economic data such as payrolls and consumer ...

Introducing foreclosure-gate, the latest risk to a US recovery

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 11 OCT 2010
... nationwide until the legal minefield is resolved. The scandal could provide another unwanted headwind for the ailing US economy as it teeters precariously on the brink of a double dip recession. "It's reasonable to anticipate that the US housing market ...

US insurer postpones IPO

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2010
In a further sign of the fragile state of the US economy, one of the biggest initial public offerings of 2010 was withdrawn overnight. Liberty Mutual Group, the fifth largest property and casualty group in the US by direct written premiums, postponed ...

Wonderfully wrong September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2010
... asset purchases, some of the additional liquidity created would find their way into stocks. If it decides against, the US economy must be in a good shape and recovery is continuing. Did I already mention that this is also good for equities? With two ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2010
... he said. On Wall street overnight, stocks closed lower as traders weighed expectations about the performance of the US economy after a warning from the Federal Reserve. The Dow Jones Industrial Average index was off 21.72 points at 10,739.31 while the ...