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Buy a toaster

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2011
"Do I feel lucky?" Well do ya, punk?" -Dirty Harry Certainly that punk Queen Qaddafi is not feeling lucky. So is Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman (that other oil producer) -- the Jasmine Revolutionaries are now marching in his Kingdom. Their subjects ...

Happy days

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2010
Three cheers for September! Hip, hip! Where's the September curse everybody and his dog were warning about at the onset of the seventh moon of the year? Thirteen days into this "most awful month" for stocks and so far Wall Street has advanced in eight ...

Too clever by half

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2010
... United States. Introducing...the man who needs no introduction...the man who moves markets...the Sage of Omaha...Mr. Warren Buffet. Bloomberg reports that one of the reasons Wall Street posted its biggest gain since February last night was because - ...

The retaking of Dow 11000

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2010
Here we go, here we go, here we go-o! The Dow has retaken the 11K ground anew! Dow 36,000 here we come! Yes Virginia, by virtue of a miniscule 0.1 per cent gain overnight, the Dow has once again crossed beyond that ever-elusive 11,000 milestone to close ...

Happy birthday bull

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
... Rosenberg joined the chorus and also forecast a similar level for the S&P 500. These predictions, and apparently Warren Buffet's -- the 'sage of Omaha' - remark that the US economy 'has fallen off a cliff' sent Wall Street down again last night. Why ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2009
The Australian sharemarket has received a mixed lead from Wall Street, with major indices lower, but precious and base metals, and oil, higher. At 0829 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index contract was 12 points higher ...

Yin to market yang

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2009
... break away from the short-termism that we're always accused of," he said. "If you follow the advice of the likes of Warren Buffet, you should just look through the market noise, some of which can be quite violent, like what happened to resource companies ...

Three wise men - maybe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2009
I am "buying stocks right as we speak" and am getting "a lot for my money," Warren Buffet told his audience at a California conference. The tone was similarly positive at the Brookings Institution in Washington, with US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben ...

The power of optimism

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2009
'Never underestimate the power of optimism.' (Camp Quality) This was perfectly proven by the equity markets' strong performance last week where many of the indices - if not all - spiked to their best weekly gain since November 2008. News reports and ...

Fanning the flames of fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2009
... Rosenberg joined the chorus and also forecast a similar level for the S&P 500. These predictions, and apparently Warren Buffet's -- the 'sage of Omaha' - remark that the US economy 'has fallen off a cliff' sent Wall Street down again last night. Why ...