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First quarter (w)innings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2013
... theme of rotation and reflation remains in play in spite of some bumps along the way. Bet you still remember the corrections - nay, buy opps - that happened on the way: The Fed was going to unwind QE3 sooner than you, I and Irene expected; The inconclusive ...

MFAA to terminate 1,100 mortgage brokers

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2013
The Mortgage & Finance Association of Australia (MFAA) could forfeit nearly half a million dollars in membership fees after it terminated 1,100 of its broker members who failed to meet its new educational requirements. All loan writing members had until ...

Beggar me not my neighbour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013
... I say improve? Yes, I did and it's not only with regards to US jobs, the housing sector is too. Housing starts increased, nay soared, by 28.1% -- the strongest since 1983 -- to 780,000 houses last year from 608,800 in 2011. This comes on the heels of ...

Good US housing news is real good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2012
"Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world." -- Abraham Lincoln Yes Virginia, property is good and an improving property market is good for the economy. Now do you still wonder why Ben Bernanke is doing ...

Good jobs bad jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... revised its estimate of employment for July (up an extra 40,000) and August (up 46,000) higher for a net increase of 86,000. Nay, it was so good, that you could almost picture the Big O grinning from ear to ear perhaps even dancing the gangnam style. ...

Q3 will work

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
"Is QE3 enough to save America's economy?" The Economist magazine posed this question to its readers over the weekend. So far, the nays have it - 78% of them think QE won't cut it - because according to those who commented: even Bernanke admitted that ...

Two down, one to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2012
Two down. European Central Bank bond purchases -- Outright Monetary Transactions (OMTs) - open-ended at that: Check. German Constitutional Court's verdict on the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) bailout fund: Check. Ja! Jawohl! "'The review has concluded ...

Wen's visible hand

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2012
... - and it would slap you silly if you fail to comply. It wanted to slow growth to reduce pressure on inflation, it got it, nay, it got them both. Its economy has slowed for six straight quarters now - from 9.8% in the last three months of 2010. Consumer ...

Tell that to the marines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
... agreement have removed a significant amount of event risk on the table. But as markets go, this had been replaced with a fresh - nay, a recycled - one. And this is that last night's round of economic releases confirm that the US economy and the world ...

Go ahead Europe, make my day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012
... it or "as Home Data Tempers Economic Concern," as per Bloomberg, please stop! For this is just the usual case of investors (nay, speculators) not wanting to get whipsawed by a surprise QE - or whatever counter measure - announcement following a big drop ...