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Danger signs ahead but bargain stocks a-plenty: Faber

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2009
Leading contrarian investor Dr. Marc Faber wears his "ultra bearish" cap in his Australian visit, predicting another financial crisis could happen in the next five to 10 years - but even that doesn't mean there aren't any investment opportunities, particularly ...

V still likely

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2009
Chk, chk, bang! Yes, ladies and gentlemen. Equity markets greeted August the same way it left July - with a bang! One by one the bears are beginning to wave the white flag as the thundering herd forces them back into hibernation. The "Maestro," former ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2009
The Australian share market edged up in morning trade, led by the banks, on low volumes during a public holiday in NSW and the ACT. At 1200 AEST, the S&P/ASX 200 was 10.9 points higher, or by 0.26 per cent, at 4254.9 while the broader All Ordinaries ...

Christmas in July

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2009
... businesses and consumers have turned more optimistic. Emerging economies have emerged. And in Australia, my former boss and "Big Bear" (according to Michael Pascoe), Gerard Minack of Morgan Stanley, did a "mea culpa". "Seems I was wrong to be so bearish ...

Fed brawn, RBA brains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2009
Days like these, I should have stayed in bed a bit longer. For this is one of those days when overnight action on Wall Street offered no adrenaline hit to my system. Will have to settle for three coffee cups this morning. The S&P slipped 0.3 per cent ...

Loaded one-way bet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2009
Final inning. Yes folks, this is the month's last inning. Will the end days of July mark the seventh moon of 2009 as the return of the bulls? Or will it mark when the bears built up the courage to mount a comeback? Normally I would have said, it doesn't ...

When it's too late

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2009
... is a positive. How can they? Not now. Not when their flag bearer, Professor Nouriel Roubini, has already come out of the bear closet and declared he has turned bull. The Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU) has been arguing all along that the ...

Bullish bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2009
... this time? What made him change his mind? A good helping of Prozac perhaps? Or was it out of envy for Meredith -- also a bear until Goldman Sachs three days ago? Anything you can do I can do better. Heck, I was saying this since March but no one paid ...

Another dead feline bounce

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2009
Oh boy! Wall Street is setting itself up for disappointment round 2. Cling! Cling! With the economic environment still challenging at best and recovery in a galaxy far, far away US equities - and by extension, equities everywhere else - would be hard ...

Positive surprise beats Meredith's surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2009
... and 0.5 per cent respectively. Now this report - as every other in recent months - could be used as fodder for either the bear or the bull case. But markets felt good from the feel good factor from the good Goldman and Johnson earnings. At the end of ...