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Gloom and doom news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... export competitiveness relative to Beijing. Speculation of a Fed hike has already prompted investors to take away their money and run away from emerging markets. These, in turn, are putting downward pressure on global demand for commodity prices at the ...

Watching out for the Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
... coming soon, at its next FOMC meeting on 16-17 September." This morning, Chris Ciovacco -- founder and CEO of independent money management firm Ciovacco Capital Management (CCM) - cleared the confusion and virtually told me I'm not sick in the head when ...

The "old economy" that is Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
... recovery." Now where, rather when, have I heard this line before? While not a single soul could argue that it was the Fed's money printing that flooded these tech companies into high tide and the of course, the S&P 500 along with them, the matter of ...

Round and round we go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
... at the OK choral would end the same as it did in previous standoffs, with an OK... until the next time Greece runs out of money, debts mature and a standoff ensues. We've also come full circle to the early months of 2015 on Fed lift-off speculations ...

Still in the woods

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2015
... the meltdown: What's the similarity between the Chinese stock holder and the Greek depositor? They both can't get their money. There's a real risk that the sell-off would resume once stock market trading trades as normal. The best that could be hoped ...

From Greece's frying pan into China's fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2015
... It shows that the Communist Party, powerful though it may be, cannot indefinitely bend markets to its will." Print enough money, threaten to cut enough heads and it will bend. The Fed's QE didn't work immediately - that's why we got QE1, Q2 and QE3. ...

Fedcident waiting to happen?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
... lady. Here's one I found on Newsmax 's website: "Even if managed well," Lagarde said of a central bank's exit from easy-money policies, that could still present an "arduous obstacle course" for other countries, The Los Angeles Times reported." "No country ...

Graccident averted (yet again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
... compromise is struck on the 11th hour, on the very last minute. All's forgotten, until the next time Greece runs out of money and another repayment is due and the troika looks and finds (again) that Greece has not kept up its end of the bargain.

New kid on the block

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2015
... it was at US$9.25 trillion. They've also done a lotta market-oriented reforms and restructuring on the economy. Take the money and run. Short China to make more. That's if you believe in the China bull and not the China bull.

Banned for taking $4m from SMSFs

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
... investors (aiming to raise at least $20 million). They intended to establish an offshore share scheme in the US and British Virgin Islands outside of the jurisdiction of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). An ASIC investigation ...