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The weekend that could change the world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013
... Cyclone Oswald's landfall earlier this year costs Queensland A$2.5 billion in revenue and Yasi in 2011 subtracted A$6 billion.A Yup, it's bye-bye budget bye-bye if mama nature decides to throw another big tantrum in even one of Joe's budgeted four years.A ...

Let 'em rip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2013

India's triple dilemma

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2013
... yesterday to keep the repo and reverse rates steady at 7.25% and 6.25%, respectively. Read: the RBI did not raise interest rates. Yup, you read that right. Markets expected the RBI to raise interest rates to prevent the currency from dropping. Another ...

Improving picture paints a taper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
... 70,000 to the total jobs tally. The unemployment rate steadied at 7.6% due largely to an increase in the participation rate (yup, more workers are encouraged to look for jobs). Wall Street has come back around to what Virginia and I have been saying ...

Yes, no, I don't know

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2013
... and more than half of those losses are reversed. The price action just reinforces how important the FOMC Wednesday will be." Yup. Two days ago (17 June), Financial Times published an article by Robin Harding entitled "Fed likely to signal tapering move ...

It's the headlines, you twit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013
... currency bloc struggled to emerge from a recession, adding to pressure on the European Central Bank to do more to boost growth". Yup, same old, same old. While this latest update on the Eurozone gives the IMF's recent downgrade to global growth (published ...

2011 and 2012 Redux?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2013

China's turn to provide buy opportunities

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2013
... that followed from the scares two weeks past and last week, it's looking like the dip buyers are out in force once again. Yup, this week it's China's turn to provide the buy-op. And why not? Fed vice chair Janet Yellen, in her speech before the National ...

Wall Street up till it was down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2013
... government budget cuts that will take effect starting Friday if lawmakers fail to reach agreement on spending and taxes." Yup, no worries. Investors were merely "keeping an eye" on it. And this from Bloomberg: "The International Monetary Fund will lower ...

Don't stop me now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013
... some things are going well. The economy is improving, emerging markets are doing well, the corporates are doing well so far." Yup, the S&P 500 rose another 1.5% to reach the year's high of 1363.61 points on 29 April before falling by 19.4% to a low of ...