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Impasse ends when Wall Street says stop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013

Financial Standard names FS Smileys finalists

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012
The 2012 finalists of the Financial Standard Social Media Influence, Leadership + Excellence Scholarship (or "the Smileys"), sponsored by Zurich, were announced today ahead of the awarding of the Scholarship in Melbourne next week. The 12 finalists ...

USA no longer AAA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
... mortgage-backed securities debacle, when agencies bestowed AAA ratings on bonds backed subprime mortgages, as well as the alphabet soup of structured products (ABS, CDOs, CLOs, CDO-squareds) that were issued en masse banks during the credit bubble. Those ...

L-U-V

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2009
... Asian countries with China of course providing the lynchpin. At least Australians are not worried about the economic alphabet. Our economy is doing nicely, thank you very much. Australian retailers are reportedly expecting Santa to come to town this ...

Rejoice for rates have risen

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2009
Talk of the town. That's the RBA of course. At a time when other G-20 nations continue to debate the growth alphabet of their own recovery, Australia's central bank declared, 'no mas!' 'No mas' need for keeping interest rates at the emergency level ...

The long and short of bulls and bears

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2009
... no, I can feel a new letter coming... vV." My pong. I have no problem with this argument although I see the recovery alphabet more of 'Vv' -- a strong rebound followed a decline and then slower growth. The thing is, how do you make money as an investor ...

Of population growth and surpluses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2009
Since we're still into discussions of the alphabet these days, did anyone notice Australian Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan mention the 'S' word last week? It was during his address to formally launch the Australian Institute for Population Ageing Research ...

Playing chicken with tyres

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2009
Don't look now but the debate as to what letter of the alphabet the global recovery will take - U, V or W - could all turn out to be wrong. It could be an L with the horizontal part of the letter longer and downward sloping. Trust politicians to try ...

Priced, but not for a V

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2009
... change the colour of the market's outlook? All the good news has been priced in. Really? So why are we still debating the alphabet soup of recovery - L, U, V, W? But...but, the S&P 500 has rallied almost 50 per cent from its March lows? But my butt. ...

U V W X Y Z

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2009
What's this? We're back into discussing the alphabet soup of the coming recovery? Would the global economy's recovery take the shape of a V? Will it be a U or a W? My oh my Virginia, I'm getting tired and very ill with all these discussions. For me ...