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Goldilocks QE2

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2010
Take this Friday off. For while we can talk... discuss... and argue about fresh economic stats, earnings reports, survey data out of America or even Fed speak, all these would no longer matter in less than one week from now. America's political landscape ...

Bottoms up

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2010
Investors who view the world in macro terms often intuitively base their approach on a country's economic fundamentals. But new research suggests economic fundamentals may have little bearing on the performance of a country's stockmarket. According ...

Money, money, money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2010

Bad, bad day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
For a while there I thought that October would just sail past smoothly - just like this year's September proved that it is not always the worst month for equities. Disappointment was all over Wall Street overnight - big time with its tree major stock ...

Fed bearing gift of QE2

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2010
Don't fight the Fed! This adage has been with us for some time now and it's back again doing the rounds in the financial markets. Yes, Virginia. The chorus for QE2 keeps growing louder that Wall Street - and the world - appears to be just waiting for ...

ASIC tightens noose on managed inv schemes

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 8 OCT 2010
... adequacy requirements will provide consumers with any greater protection," he said. "Undoubtedly investors in MISs will have to bear the cost of the changes without necessarily receiving any greater expertise or skill from the new RE. It may also have ...

Wonderfully wrong September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2010
... measures were just being planned? Thank you very much! Exactly my point... the point I've been trying to jackhammer into thick bear skulls for as long as I could remember. Short of a black swan's reappearance, the financial and economic landscapes are ...

Gotta love gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2010
We've been told that the US recession officially died 15 months ago and Wall Street, it seems, is no longer grieving. In fact, the S&P 500 index looks on track to claim its "biggest September gain in 71 years" - unless Bloomberg is mistaken, that is ...

CB thoughts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
"But where do you go to my lovely When you're alone in your bed Tell me the thoughts that surround you I want to look inside your head, yes I do." -- Peter Sarstedt We, mere mortals, watching the financial market's daily gyrations and the regular drip ...

Glum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2010
... out of America remains mixed and is therefore wide opened to interpretation. Picked the negative ones and you can make a bear out of anyone. Select the positive ones and you'll have the bulls applauding. And double-dip? If financial markets are really ...