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Fed decides not to decide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2012
... Journal' that encapsulates all the other headlines that answer the 'why' for the weak performance of those scripts on The Street last night. But what did the Fed decide? It decided on nothing. Oh sowee, it did. The Fed decided not to change policy settings ...

Fall on the Wall

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2012
... right! I can only wish. "I don't think so." This was St. Louis Fed's James Bullard's response. Not to me being read on The Street, but to CNBC's question as to whether "a major" program of buying assets, or quantitative easing, is warranted. So there! ...

The rally that no one's enjoyed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2012
... dynamics and rumours and innuendos coming out of Europe, speculation about China and lowered company earnings estimates, "the Street's" nearly up and over the Wall of worry - wittle by wittle. For six straight weeks, Wall Street's been eking out gains ...

No Ben boosta

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2012
... reports of Wall Street's disappointment over the Fed's inaction last night filled cyberspace, somehow I don't think The Street was really that displeased. The S&P 500 index closed down by only 0.3% as we awoke - still up by 2.8% from the day before Mario's ...

All juiced up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2012
All assets with risk attached to them are jumping with joy and dancing on the streets. Global equities - measured by the MSCI All-Country World Index - jumped by 2.3% overnight, the biggest one-day gain since 20 December. The euro hopped above US$1.25. ...

The end is not nigh

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2012
My, my, hey, hey, rock n' roll is here to stay - or in our case Europe's sovereign debt, fiscal deficit, financial, banking, economic, political and social crisis. You name the crisis. One or more members of the Eurozone's got one, or more, or all of ...

No please explain needed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2012
... Oh-em-gee! What a lotta cow droppings. I hope you're 'LOL' after reading this morning's commentaries of the happenings on The Street while we were sleeping. According to 'expert' analysis, "S&P 500 snaps four-day advance" (Bloomberg) and the Dow gave ...

No more fear - maybe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2012
Seventy-one (71) Julia. Thirty-one (31) KRudd. Surprised? No. Embarrassingly entertaining? Very. But now that Team Labor has chosen, it's time to put the farce (whoops, Freudian slip), the past behind and get on with the business of governing. Yeah ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2012
The Australian dollar has moved slightly higher as markets continue to react positively to the Greek parliament's passage of fresh austerity measures. The Australian market looks set to open flat despite a positive lead from Wall Street after Greek ...

Bankruptcy could be bliss

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2012
"Don't go talking too loud, you'll cause a landslide, Mr. Jones." - The Bee Gees, New York Mining Disaster The optimism that warmed financial markets for the best part of the first six weeks of 2012 has been dented by the comeback of the European sovereign ...