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U V W X Y Z

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2009
What's this? We're back into discussing the alphabet soup of the coming recovery? Would the global economy's recovery take the shape of a V? Will it be a U or a W? My oh my Virginia, I'm getting tired and very ill with all these discussions. For me ...

All aboard

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2009
The gospel according to the US Federal Reserve: Economic activity -- "levelling out". Financial market conditions -- "improved further". Treasury buyback -- expiry extended another month to October (just in case). Fed funds rate - near zero for an extended ...

Add £50b, will travel

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2009

Jobs, jobs, jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2009
Watch the screens today! For at exactly 1130 hours (AEST), the Australian Bureau of Statistics will release a tally of how many of us were able to keep our jobs last month, how many were still looking for work and how many started submitting forms to ...

Higher...higher and higher

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
Overnight action on Wall Street was as boring as watching green shoots grow. As is typical in this stage of the cycle, the usual suspects - mixed economic data - caused the major US stock averages to bob up and bob down before closing narrowly higher ...

Christmas in July

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2009
Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas to everyone and all! Except for the grinch bears that is. Yes, Virginia. Christmas came in July. Hope and cheer abounded in equity markets around the globe and in other risk assets. How could they not? Slow - painfully ...

Greener than green shoots

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2009
Phew! That was a close call. Just when you thought Wall Street has run out of puff, a tail wind comes to lift its sails. The Dow and the S&P 500 spent most of last night's trading activity in the red. For most of the session, investors were cashing ...

Loaded one-way bet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2009
Final inning. Yes folks, this is the month's last inning. Will the end days of July mark the seventh moon of 2009 as the return of the bulls? Or will it mark when the bears built up the courage to mount a comeback? Normally I would have said, it doesn't ...

Another dead feline bounce

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2009
Oh boy! Wall Street is setting itself up for disappointment round 2. Cling! Cling! With the economic environment still challenging at best and recovery in a galaxy far, far away US equities - and by extension, equities everywhere else - would be hard ...

Positive surprise beats Meredith's surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2009
And it's off...and they're running. The second quarter US earnings reporting season is off...and so far, company results are running ahead of expectations. Wall Street continued to travel night while we were sleeping. The S&P 500 closed 0.5 per cent ...