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Data data everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2010
Mondayitis. This and the flood of first-tier economic data set to be released later in the week will keep the Australian financial markets well, a bit out of sorts today. Friday night's performance on Wall Street was not telling enough to sway Australian ...

Positive spin to bad news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2010
... year ago. So what did Wall Street do after seeing these figures? The Dow and the S&P 500 closed almost one per cent higher. Ahh! But it could still be salvaged Virginia. We could still find a plausible explanation for the market's good mood overnight. ...

Australians all let us rejoice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2010
... government revenues, making it easier and faster to reduce the budget deficit and repay the national debt. Mortgaged future paid! Ahh...but now there's a new scare -- pain from rising interest rates. The RBA had had already raised the official cash rate ...

Yamashita's treasure

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2009
... jar or in a safety deposit box. But how do you store tonnes of gold? You pay a warehouse or a vault to store and guard them. Ahh...yes! That's it! But wait. With so many wanting to hold gold bullions, bars, ingots and coins, warehouses and vaults are ...

Job woes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2009
... rise in the value of their houses to finance conspicuous and not so conspicuous consumption. This was no time for saving. Ahh...the good life. And now that crap hit the fan, they blame (shoot) others? But before another Jason Rodriguez points the gun ...

Boiling frog

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2009
Slow cooked. Is the Reserve Bank of Australia slowly boiling the Australian economy alive? I refer, of course, to the story of the 'boiling frog' - often used as an anecdote to describe the financial markets' failure to respond to significant modifications ...

Trick or treat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2009
Trick or treat? Trick or treat? Will Halloween steal Christmas away from Wall Street? It appears so given the stumble on Wall Street and most major equity markets around the world last week - sending their early October gains down the gurgler. Wall ...

A tale of confidence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2009
Let's leave hard US economic data aside for today. There's not so much we can gather from them these days anyway and perhaps for a few more months to come. Yes, Virginia. The economic numbers have become boring. Day after day, month after month, we ...

Sucked in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2009
... sometime, greed and excess will return, caution will be thrown to the wind, and then...the next bust. But when? Nobody knows. Ahh yes, there will be cries of "I told you so" after the fact. It is so easy to put a dd/mm/yyyy tomorrow. But ask when today ...

Vote of confidence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2009
... become 4.75 per cent. OMG! OMG! OMG! Some commentators blamed this for the dip in the Australian equity market yesterday. Ahh yes, of course, pressure on stock valuation, higher mortgage rates that would dampen property, higher credit rates that would ...