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China's January effect

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2016
... globe dropped -- big time -- at the start of the first trading week of this year. The S&P 500 index ended 6.0% lower; the Stoxx 600 index dropped by 6.7%; the Nikkei-225 index retreated by 7.0%; the FTSE-100 index lost 5.3% and the All Ordinaries index ...

Did ECB under-deliver or markets over-expect?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2015
... The euro had been steadily depreciating since then - it dropped to US$1.12 on 22 October from US$1.14 the day before. The Stoxx 600 went from 362.64 points to 369.99 points; and, 10-year bond yields dropped from 0.57% to 0.50%. And this trend persisted ...

Hotel California

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2015
Ho ho ho and ha ha ha. The truth is out. Wall Street dipped overnight and so did the Euro Stoxx 50 - after their strong gains of the past week because, wait for it......because investors suddenly realised that the ECB and the PBOC's early Christmas ...

Super Mario returns fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
... Virginia, Super Mario returned overnight and shot down the euro, putting smiles on the faces of holders of Eurozone stocks - Stoxx 600 up 2.4% -- and bonds - 10-year yields fell across the region. The euro dropped to as low as US$1.1085 while we slept ...

Gloom and doom news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... Will Robinson!" Danger! Danger! Pick a stock market, any stock market, chances are it is now in correction territory - Dow, Stoxx 600, FTSE-100, All Ords, Strait Times, Jakarta Composite, Taiex, KLCI, PSEi - or in a bear market -- Hang Seng - or highly ...

Five minutes of commodity sunshine?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
... zinc, tin, wheat, corn, cotton and cattle, to name a few - scrambling on the up and up. China happy, Europe happy - the Euro Stoxx 50 closed a little it over 1% up - happier still on reports that Greece is nearing a deal on receiving a fresh a,-86B rescue ...

Stirred but not shaken

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015
... closed down by an eye-watering 0.4%; the All Ords by 1.2%; and in Europe (the epicentre of the Greek tragi-comedy), the Stoxx 600 "plunged" by 1.2% and the FTSE-100 was off 0.8%; the Nikkei-225 finished off by 2.1% - and bond yields dropped, marginally ...

Grexit nears, markets cheer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
... come! And yet, the "fear gauge" - the VIX index - dropped 3.8% to 14.81 overnight. And yet, European stocks rebounded - the Stoxx 600 index increased by 0.65% -- after Friday (minus 0.9%) and Monday's (minus 1.6%) big falls. It created "buying opportunities". ...

Mocking Maastricht

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... intact and that there won't be any Grexit - at least, this month - if I ever saw one. Yet, the nays have it too. The Euro Stoxx 600 index sank by 1.0% and the Athens SE General Index down a hefty 2.5%. But no surprises here, we've been here before... ...

Q1 earnings expectations get rub down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2015
... up by 0.4% in the first three months of 2015 - a significant underperformance compared with the 16.0% surge in the Euro Stoxx 600 index, the Nikkei-225 index's 10.1% advance and the FTSE-100's 3.2% gain. This is hardly surprising even if one were to ...