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Lookin' good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 NOV 2010
... woodworks expressing their critiques on why QE2 would be inutile. Of course, they'll never be wrong because if the Fed does nothing, the same "experts" would blame the Fed's failure to act. But hang on... take a closer look at the S&P 500's long-er term ...

Amigos para siempre

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
... tells me this means best friends forever). And Australia's not only supporting the US war against terror, it's also said nothing about the US Federal Reserve's war against deflation and unemployment. Unlike the increasing number of countries voicing ...

QE2 still the main game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2010
There is really nothing much to report today. Wall Street rose... a bit. The US dollar depreciated... more than a bit. There were positive reports out overnight. The third quarter reporting season is good. More than 86 per cent of companies in the S&P ...

G-20 gabfest at Gyeongju

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
... expect that the brewing currency war would be discussed in South Korea. But they were also correct to anticipate that nothing of substance will eventuate. Heck, they were not even able to stop irrelevant little Zimbabwe from sinking its currency - not ...

Meaning to the meaningless

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2010
... investigation into "alleged" illegal US property foreclosures. I'll spare you the stats this time for there is really nothing new here. We know that the US labour market remains soft. One week's data point telling us that it is doesn't really make a ...

Fed bearing gift of QE2

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2010
... money is good. Mo' money would create mo' jobs, mo' spending, mo' lending, mo' profits. But what if the Fed comes bearing nothing? This is good too. "I win again." The interpretation would then be that the US economy is picking up momentum that the Fed ...

Cheap talk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
It was another ho-hum day on Wall Street last night. Nothing much was expected, nothing much transpired. US stocks ended flat in light trading activity as the bond market and government offices closed in celebration of the day Christopher Columbus came ...

Going global with Threadneedle

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2010
... for underlying currency fluctuations. And while Australian investors still have a bias towards the local market, it's nothing compared to their UK counterparts, Podger said. "The impression I get is that the Australian investor is much more receptive ...

Good for nothing war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2010
"War! huh-yeah What is it good for? Absolutely nothing..." Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong wrote this song in 1969 in protest of the Vietnam War. Its lyrics talk about the lost of lives and "tears to a thousand mothers' eyes". "War! It ain't nothing ...

Competing to devalue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2010
... August 2010. Go ahead, compare the statements side by side and apart from a few fiddles here... and there in the wordings, nothing much has really changed. It was more or less the same assessment - and the same conclusion. "The Committee will continue ...