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BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011
What's the final deal going to be? Will they, won't they? Sorry Virginia, not talking about the grand theatrics that is the US debt ceiling negotiations this time. Today, I refer these questions to our very own Reserve Bank of the Advance Australia ...

Better second half

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
... increase. No surprises here. With higher food and petrol prices and still high unemployment, what else does anyone expect? Ahh, but here too, relief could just be waiting around the corner - in the second half of 2011. The recent back down in commodity ...

Nobody wins against the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011
... its production facilities have been inoperable in the aftermath of the earthquake/tsunami/nuclear crisis. Next stop Europe. Ahh, where would our bad news tour be without dropping by Greece. The one that started it all for the Eurozone. Speculation abounds ...

Silver bullet downs market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011
Looks like the commodity and equity markets put up a big 'SALE sign last night. Commodities of nearly all persuasions dropped with a thud and so did Wall Street along with other markets in North and Latin America and most of Europe. Do I have permission ...

A friend like Ben

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2011
... to relieve their anxieties? For how else could you explain continued buying of risk assets in the face of heightened risks? Ahh, but there is an explanation. And it all comes back to America and its biggest money institution, the US Federal Reserve. ...

Trouble not terribly troubling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2011
... Monetary Fund (IMF) recently lifted its outlook for world economic growth to 4.4 per cent this year and 4.5 per cent in 2012. Ahh, but with growth comes inflation. Central banks are going to be raising interest rates soon - those in the emerging markets ...

Wrong answer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 DEC 2010
Chuckle, chuckle, chuckle. "If your copying somebody else's answers, make sure you're copying the correct one." Almost always during exams, teacher would give us examinees this warning (advice?). This popped in my head when I read today's business story ...

When everything went wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
Pick your poison. There's a "Murphy's Law" event for every bear to choose from to shatter all hopes, prayers and wishes. Thanksgiving? No, thanks! As Mr. Murphy famously said, "If something can go wrong, it will!" It sure the heck did over the past ...

Whac-a-mole 2.0

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
Whac-a-mole 2.0! Remember whac-a-mole 1.0 when the global financial crisis was just starting? It was then, that the air was ripe with speculation as to which financial institution's head - Bear Sterns, Fannie/Freddie, AIG - the US Fed/Treasury tandem ...

Bad hair day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2010
There were snippets of good news overnight although on the whole, they were just that -snippets. Bad news dominated the headlines. There was more of the same confusing data out of America. Jobless claims rose by 12,000 in the week ending 18 September ...