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Refreshing pause

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
Sellers...you've been warned. Given the magnitude of yesterday's decline on Wall Street, it was almost inevitable that stocks in Australia and the Asian region would succumb to gravity. Pause that refreshes. Overnight action on the Street confirmed ...

Future lies in present

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2009
... sets the stage for another leg up in stock performance. What is worrying for equities - and the economic and financial system in general - are the zealots and their impatience for a quick fix, determined not to see a repeat of the great wealth erosion ...

Pres Obama proposes sweeping regulatory reforms

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2009
... the main regulators, but coordinated through the Federal Reserve whose role will expand to monitoring the whole financial system rather than just banking and monetary policy, reports the Asian Wall Street Journal. In the Council's sights will be financial ...

Threat of Lehmannisation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2009
... showing signs of persistence. Although for the most part this is attributed to the return of normality in the financial system, there are emerging concerns that if rising interest rates persist before the green shoots go into full bloom, we will see ...

Spin-a-win

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2009
... Bulls: 10-year US Treasuries have fallen below 4 per cent last night and rising yields are indicative of the financial system going back to normality. Bears: Treasuries have risen almost 200 bps since the lows in late 2008; rising yields prevent quick ...

Slippery - watch your step

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2009
... money has to go somewhere. With almost all governments and central banks of the world pumping liquidity into the financial system, it comes as no surprise that some have flowed into commodities. Along with the rally in the equity markets, the commodity ...

Fully sick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2009
... repayment signals that institutions are healthy enough to stand without government crutch. It signals that the financial system is heading towards normalcy. The US$68 billion repayment could be spent on other institutions needing extra money without ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2009
... allowing ten major US banks to repay the Treasury $US68 billion for capital injections made to stabilise the financial system. Analysts had seen this as another sign of hope for the sector and the economy, which has been reeling from recession since ...

GS trounces GM

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2009
... flying CEO first came a begging the US taxpayers for salvation. GS (green shoots) happened is what happened. The financial system survived Bear Sterns, Lehman, Fannie and Freddie, Northern Rock, RBS, Iceland, et al during the darkest economic moment ...

Stocks and bonds agree on recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2009
... improving. The backup in yields in recent times to pre-Lehman Brothers level could also be an indication that the financial system is normalising. The slope of the US yield curve has turned sharply positive. And history shows that a positively-sloping ...