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Rescue package YES, economy NO

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2008
... bill is just a House signature away - and they do not like what they see. And just as the Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU) over the past few months, the rescue package will help stabilise the financial markets, but it is too late to prevent ...

Rescuing the rescue package

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2008
... until the fat lady sings - they are still scarred from last Monday's market meltdown. The Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU) remains hopeful that the package will ultimately be passed. But it better be soon because the longer it is delayed the ...

Soup for Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2008
... scenario. Last night's market action gave them a tangible taste of what was to come. The Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU) maintains that the rescue package - in one form or another - would eventually be ratified. Lest financial markets would ...

TARP or TRAP?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2008
The Financial Standard Intelligence Unit yesterday outlined two extreme scenarios - a positive and a negative -- that could arise as a consequence of the US Congress' passing the US Treasury/Federal Reserve's 'mother of all bail-outs' package. Last ...

The good and the bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2008
... still deliberating the administration's latest rescue package - the details and the cost. The Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU) acknowledges that despite the delay, the US Congress will ultimately pass the government's bailout plan. The issue ...

Borrow from Peter to pay Paul

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2008
... bailouts' will eventually turn out to be and more important, how much it will cost. Just as the Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU) predicted, equity markets are starting to sober up from the euphoria of the past few days as they start to digest ...

Greater fool with no shorts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2008
... proposal, lest they go down in history as the one who killed the capitalist society. As the Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU) has argued over the past few weeks, the US authorities will eventually be able to stop the carnage. But at what cost? ...

America on its knees

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2008
... which mole's head would be the next to pop out and whacked by the US Treasury/Fed tandem. The Financial Standard Intelligence Unit's (FSIU) daily market comment published last 16 September is worth repeating in light of the overnight events. "The recent ...

AIG Australia insulated from US woes

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2008
... with 18 per cent of the market. Benjamin Ong, director of economics and investments for the Financial Standard Intelligence Unit, said, "If the US Treasury or Fed agrees to bail-out AIG, they would be most likely be forced to revise aspects of their ...

Moral hazard remains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2008
... out of the system. Consequently, debt continued to accumulate with each economic boom. The Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU) could not find data on US debt prior to 1955. However, data available from Thomson Datastream shows that US debt grew ...