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Anticipatory and moderate adjustments had become necessary

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014
... authorities set policy and wish and hope and pray that economic and financial agents react as they wished, hoped and prayed. Nah Virginia, China is a command economy. The Politburo commands and economic and financial agents better do as ordered or... ...

Recycling the same old, same old

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
... revive speculation that the Fed's "considerable time" before raising interest rates won't be so considerable any longer. But nah, not after Janet's Jackson Hole detailed elaboration for the remaining "slack", the "under-utilisation" in the labour market. ...

Humanitarian you, humanitarian me too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2014
... discussed in detail with the focus on a humanitarian catastrophe turning disastrous there," he said. Two can play at that game. Nah, make it three. Here's ITAR-Tass News Agency again reporting (9 August): "Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on ...

US/EU v Russia's lose-lose is China's win-win

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
... that both are stupid enough to nuke the entire chessboard). A stalemate that'll leave you, I and Irene poorer in the process. Nah, I'm not referring to the market correction that this could precipitate if the big boys get more aggro. I'm looking further ...

Yellen yawn turn to Yellen yikes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2014
... and biotechnology industries." I read Janet's testimony transcript again, and again... and one more time for good measure. Nah, couldn't find that sentence there. Just one more, did a search...nope, not even my machine could find that sentence in her ...

A sign from the holy spirit?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014
id the holy spirit just give us a sign? Nah Virgina, I'm speak not of the one-third of the 'Holy Trinity' that is central to the Christian faith but the bank named after it in Portugal - Banco Espiritu Santo. Trading in scripts and bonds issued by Portugal's ...

Here we go again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
Nah, it couldn't be! Nope, Virginia, like I have typed on this space before the US economy has not yet reached sustainable velocity and therefore those bring forward of expectations with regards to the Fed's first interest rate hike are merely that ...

GESB outsources admin to Link Group

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2014
The Government Employees Superannuation Board (GESB) has outsourced the management of its superannuation administration services to the Link Group. Western Australian Treasurer Mike Nahan said outsourcing the administration would allow Western Australian ...

So good but for the wrong spin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014
... construction report also released overnight - up 0.1% in May versus 0.8% in April and expectations for a 0.5% increase. So nah, Virginia, the actual data don't fit the spin. So whaaa explains Wall Street jump overnight? We have to thank Bloomberg for ...

Wall Street is in a spin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2014
... East, then we would have seen oil prices skip, hop and jump sharply before or at the same time that Wall Street is down. But nah, nyet, non, no! As per Bloomberg, "Brent for August settlement increased 34 cents, or 0.3 percent, to end the session at ...