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Budget bore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... do you expect? It's a Coalition Government after all. Labor knows to tread carefully, not to agitate its partners-in-power lest all the fiddling it's done to get the Budget to show a surplus in two years' time goes to nought. And it may have succeeded ...

Tomorrow comes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
... conclusion you read on this space yesterday. And boy, investors surely loved much more today (yesterday's tomorrow). But lest I get accused on insider trading, the tomorrow I referred to was a metaphorical tomorrow not the "tomorrow" tomorrow. Wall Street ...

Cheap talk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
... too? But they'll claim self defense. The point is the IMF has no teeth to effect sanctions on these giants of the globe - lest it wants its funding withdrawn. Now everyone's looking ahead at the G-20 Summit in November where currencies are expected to ...

Wall Street takes a dive

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2010
... Not after the big drop it encountered heading into the weekend last week. Can't have any of that again. Better get out now lest we get hit again and spend the rest of the weekend worrying. Won't have any of that. Especially not when the Europe is set ...

Greenspan put

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
... to America's "federal debt" and its "capacity to borrow". He must have thought it was time to make an appearance again - lest people forget who "the maestro" was. After all, it had already been 50 months since he was at the helm of the most powerful ...

In the eyes of the beholder

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2010
... in the same direction for weeks...that's what's changed. China remains in a tightening mode. It cannot afford not to do so lest it risk an overheating in its economy. Have Greece and the other PIGS paid back a single euro of debt? Not! Japan is out of ...

Australians all let us rejoice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2010
... predicted the unemployment rate to surge to as much as 10 per cent. They have to go slow in trimming down their jobless forecasts lest the markets notice the cracks in their crystal balls. Now consensus is building that the unemployment rate has peaked. ...

Dubai games

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2009
... credit analysts were thinking all along. That Abu Dhabi -- the UAE's largest and riches - wouldn't let Dubai return to sand, lest it and the five other seven emirates are dragged down along with Dubai. But just in case Abu Dhabi decides that Dubai is ...

Damned either way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2009

Sell dollars to buy stocks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2009
... something looks amiss here. Shouldn't there be a positive - not negative - correlation between the US currency and US stocks? But lest I am mistaken, I charted the movement of the S&P 500 alongside the US broad index of dollar's foreign exchange value ...