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Online drill for gold

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2008
... resale in that it may not be a tradable commodity in the global marketplace. According to the Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU), the future of gold as a defensive asset is bright. The recent rally started in 2003 as China and India in particular ...

Central Banks must unite

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2008
... may have to implement a Zero Interest Rate Policy (ZIRP) this time. But all may not be lost. The Financial Standard Intelligence Unit's (FSIU) research shows that the S&P 500 index dropped a total of 33.5 per cent from its peak during the stockmarket ...

Fed on Zero Interest Rate Policy?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2008
... buying opportunities, myopically focusing on the passage of the US$700 billion rescue package, the Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU) warned that the 'Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008' would not be able to prevent the looming recession ...

Rescue package YES, economy NO

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2008
... the bill is just a House signature away - and they do not like what they see. And just as the Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU) over the past few months, the rescue package will help stabilise the financial markets, but it is too late to prevent ...

Rescuing the rescue package

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2008
... over until the fat lady sings - they are still scarred from last Monday's market meltdown. The Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU) remains hopeful that the package will ultimately be passed. But it better be soon because the longer it is delayed ...

Soup for Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2008
... doomsday scenario. Last night's market action gave them a tangible taste of what was to come. The Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU) maintains that the rescue package - in one form or another - would eventually be ratified. Lest financial markets ...

TARP or TRAP?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2008
The Financial Standard Intelligence Unit yesterday outlined two extreme scenarios - a positive and a negative -- that could arise as a consequence of the US Congress' passing the US Treasury/Federal Reserve's 'mother of all bail-outs' package. Last ...

The good and the bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2008
... still deliberating the administration's latest rescue package - the details and the cost. The Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU) acknowledges that despite the delay, the US Congress will ultimately pass the government's bailout plan. The issue ...

Borrow from Peter to pay Paul

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2008
... bailouts' will eventually turn out to be and more important, how much it will cost. Just as the Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU) predicted, equity markets are starting to sober up from the euphoria of the past few days as they start to digest ...

Greater fool with no shorts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2008
... the proposal, lest they go down in history as the one who killed the capitalist society. As the Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU) has argued over the past few weeks, the US authorities will eventually be able to stop the carnage. But at what ...