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Wobble gobbles

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2012
Looks like investors are again getting the hippy, hippy shake. Yes, Virginia, investors are seemingly unsure which way to go from here. Continue gobbling (stocks) or start wobbling. You'll get that same feeling when you look at Wall Street's performance ...

DST Global Solutions launches HiPortfolio upgrade

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011
Software and technology provider DST Global Solutions has upgraded its investment accounting and asset servicing solution HiPortfolioA(R) 3v10. DST said the enhanced version is the latest in a regular cycle of functional and technical enrichment, based ...

Happily dreaming of the end

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2011

Digit says recession averted

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
... good -- it's better than expectations for an increase to 405,000. Better - this the lowest level in four months. Wonderful! Hip, hip. The US recession risk is no more! I'll take any positive rationale as long as it is rational. But this, to me, isn't ...

They will deal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2011
... "joy to the world" - died down overnight. To be sure, the DJ's didn't turned off the music - they just changed the tune from hip hop, break-dancing rhythm to Andrea Bocelli's "Con Te Partiro" You can tell by just comparing Bloomberg's headline today ...

All clear for a bail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011
... to reports -- financial markets now expect Greece Prime Minister George Papandreou to survive a no confidence vote. Yippee! Hip, hip. If he does, he could then push through his austerity package and start holding a garage sale of Greek assets. The EU/ECB/IMF ...

The seventh week

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2011
... birthday - and having Monday off for this - has handed another point for the Monarchist. Long live the Queen! Oh yeah, oh yeah. Hip, hip... It was a good thing we, Australians all, were drinking and dancing and barbecuing yesterday instead of working ...

Thanks S&P

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2011
Have dip, will go shopping. To all dip-buyers everywhere, let's give three cheers to Standard & Poor's. Hip, hip... Fright over Standard & Poor's warning on America's sovereign credit rating vanished just as quickly as it appeared. Now that the credit ...

China surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
... news. There was the report of the US Congress' approval of the legislation cutting government spending by US$38.5 billion. Hip, hip... A government shutdown has been staved off. As if. Being a Thursday (Friday Australian time), there's the regular update ...

Oil at US$300

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2011
... predictable. Every slip, skip and hop in the equity markets are now linked to movements in oil - which in turn, is joined at the hip by developments in the MENA region. But despite the scares and uncertainty over the fate of the global recovery resulting ...