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Grinch vs Santa

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2010
"Torn between two lovers, feelin' like a fool" - Mary MacGregor Good thing my wife is on holidays far, far away otherwise the shape of my skull would be embedded in one of our frying pans when she reads my opening line. But honey, you know I refer not ...

60 Minutes deception

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 DEC 2010
... and the Nasdaq hopped by 0.1 per cent. And with nothing to do and nowhere to go, financial markets were forced to replay Big Ben Bernanke's weekend interview with Scott Pelley on "60 Minutes". They didn't like it on its first run, they still didn't like ...

Winter wonderland

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2010
... last Saturday morning. Their overriding theme was that, the soft jobs data means that more money would be dropping out of Big Ben's helicopter. It's also provided a case for the extension of the Bush tax cuts which end at the end of the year. That's ...

Awakening from summer slumber

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 NOV 2010
... level since two September's ago. This is a positive for the US labour market. It might still be too slow for Big O's and Big Ben's taste, but job creation is heading in the right direction. These three are just the latest snippets of the slowly strengthening ...

Thanks but no thanks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
... before the Fed handed down QE2. They wanted it... and so desperately. Heck, some even wanted more than the US$600 billion Big Ben handed out. But that was a few weeks ago. Changed my mind. Take it back! Paaa-lease. No wonder the equity market is confused. ...

Smaller QE2 is not all that bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2010
Whoa boy! Hold your horses! QE2 expectations are going out of hand. It started with just over a couple of billions and then grew, and grew, and grew. Just two days ago, I wrote about St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank Director of Research Christopher Waller ...

Punting on next week

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2010
... change next week when the Fed changes the money metrics. Am sure the RBA is aware of this. Maybe Glenn is on the phone with Big Ben at this very moment asking him the size of his package. Place your bets.

Good for nothing war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2010
... private payrolls fell by 39,000 in September - lower than expectations for a 20,000 gain and the first drop since January. Big Ben already sounded the warning bell yesterday when he said that, "Additional purchases have the ability to ease financial ...

Recession over, now for the recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
... worked. Oh yes, it came at a cost, perhaps much too much. But the toll on the economy would have been much, much worse had Big Ben and "Yes, we can!" Obama simply sat and tweedled their thumbs. That's the good news. Now for the bad. US economic growth ...

A friend like Ben

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2010
... quarter GDP growth estimate to 1.6 per cent from 2.4 per cent nor Intel's revenue warning got the market down the day Big Ben declared that he's got our backs. "... the FOMC will do all that it can to ensure continuation of the economic recovery... the ...