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No random walk on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012
As surely as night follows day, an up day on Wall Street followed the previous one's down. Over the past seven trading days, the S&P 500 displayed this classic sawtooth pattern. Here are the stats - and the rationales as headlined: 06 June: Up 2.3% ...

Three more days of guessing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2012
Up and down it goes, where it ends nobody knows. Wall Street was down again last night, after being up the previous day and down the day before. This sawtooth trading pattern hardly comes as a surprise given the great uncertainty over the outcome of ...

QE hope - must be getting tough again?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2012
... only so much a man can take - especially one that tries to make sense of daily happenings. The S&P 500 was up again last night after being down the previous day after being up the day before and down the day before that. Yes folks, this is what the past ...

PIG now officially PIGS

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2012
... assistance package would be enough. Some say it is, others not. It was more than sufficient on the weekend, it wasn't last night. Wait, there's more. The 100 bil would come from the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF). This is good for Spanish ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012
... Benny Sada, senior equities analyst at Australian Stock Report. "That really took the wind out of the market's sails last night and that has translated into some (sharp) losses for our gold miners who are leading the declines this morning," he said. ...

Pop goes the QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012
... fallen by 16.2% in the same month. The Dow's recent gains have taken it further away from bear market territory. As at last night's closing, the Dow has reduced its loss to only 6.2% from its 1 May peak (from down 9% last Friday), turning the negative ...

All juiced up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2012
... under the G7 cloak. Not when it's your personal credibility is at stake. Two central bank authorities did just that last night. While keeping interest rates on hold at 1.0%, ECB president Mario Draghi reminded all you bears wearing shorts that, "We monitor ...

Equity value - cheap or the new normal?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012
... PMIs today (good) - and the constantly changing verdict about what happens to Greece, Spain, the Eurozone. News out last night was good, the G7 held a telecon and promised to work together to solve the debt crisis in Greece and Spain. Yeah, yeah promises ...

Still a guessing game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2012
... interest rates by 25 bips. This is the current market consensus because of some semblance of calm in the financial markets last night - it was 50 yesterday though. This seems just right - not too much, not nothing. It seems logical, it seems rational ...

CIO and COO award winners named

FINANCIAL STANDARD TEAM  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012
It is usually the chief executive that gets the spotlight, but last night the country's top chief investment officer and chief operation officer for fiduciary funds got their time in the sun. Steve Merlicek, chief investment officer of IOOF, was honoured ...