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Meaning to the meaningless

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2010
... they foreclosed on delinquent mortgages. Weak trade data and jobless figures also eroded confidence." And this from Bloomberg: "U.S. stocks declined, dragging benchmark indexes down from five-month highs, as financial companies slumped amid concern over ...

Fed bearing gift of QE2

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2010
... dollars. This is not hard to imagine, especially given last night's reports on company profits and China. According to Bloomberg, "Going into this earnings season, more than 70 percent of S&P 500 companies have topped the average analyst earnings estimate ...

Grand currency sale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 OCT 2010

Spoiling for war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 OCT 2010
... And why shouldn't I be? Not only were these indices up for the month, September's rally was broad-based. According to Bloomberg, "All 10 industry groups in the S&P 500 and all 30 stocks in the Dow have gained in September..." But that's that, September's ...

The good smoke

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2010
... 1.4-percentage point contribution to GDP has just been plucked from the air, here's a more "scientific" accounting. According to Bloomberg, "Naoko Ogata, a senior researcher at the Japan Research Institute, a Tokyo-based think tank, predicts last-minute ...

Wonderfully wrong September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2010
... uncertainty. There's still the problem with Europe's sovereign debt. It might flare up again. Wait... it's flared up again. Bloomberg reported last night that, "Irish 10-year yields surged 17 basis points to 6.74 percent and the premium investors demand ...

Gotta love gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2010
... longer grieving. In fact, the S&P 500 index looks on track to claim its "biggest September gain in 71 years" - unless Bloomberg is mistaken, that is not a typo. So what's the deal with gold then? Last time I looked, gold was flirting with the US$1,300 ...

Competing to devalue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2010
... still reeling from the previous day's FOMC assessment that the US economy remains weak. Ok, let's give it that. But Bloomberg took it a bit farther. "The Fed said yesterday for the first time that slowing inflation and sluggish growth may need more action ...

Watching the A$ watch the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 SEP 2010
... deflation... or both. Bad, bad news. What does this mean for the Australian dollar? I linked this in because of a recent Bloomberg report that the "Aussie is 27 per cent too expensive" based on purchasing power parity. This means that the Australian ...

Fortune cookie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2010
... petrol prices) and less on discretionary spending. Worse, Americans were only enticed to spend because of, according to Bloomberg, "Bigger back-to-school discounts, an increase in the number of states offering tax-free holidays and the restoration of ...