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Liquidity flow versus trade flow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2009
There is no mistaking that in the battle between the bulls and the bears, the thundering herd of male cows have got the upper hand over the past six months. Investor sentiment has changed from fearing being in the market to dreading missing out. Despite ...

The long and short of bulls and bears

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2009
Yesterday, I engaged in ping-pong with three of the fresh thinkers in the investment industry. Email ping-pong, that is. Discussions of Stella (the beer), cognacs and cigars aside, D.R. Beare - not his real name - opened serve with an email bagging ...

September mourn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2009
... consensus earnings expectations - 72.2 per cent as at Q2 2009, a hairline below the 72.3 per cent achieved in 2004 when the bulls were still roaming on Wall Street. Forget that interest rates are at historic lows - and would be kept that way for as long ...

Loaded one-way bet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2009
... Yes folks, this is the month's last inning. Will the end days of July mark the seventh moon of 2009 as the return of the bulls? Or will it mark when the bears built up the courage to mount a comeback? Normally I would have said, it doesn't matter. Whatever ...

Ways to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2009
... the US property market and better-than-expected jobless claims and company earnings. But this is no longer news for the bulls.

The times they are a'changin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2009
... commodities) -- sent the bears scampering for cover. "It was the spring of hope." This time, the onus is once again shifting on the bulls to prove their raison d'etre as investors grow impatient for the green shoots to blossom. As such, Wall Street closed ...

Of bulls, bears and flatliners

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2009
... are indeed ahead. During this period, sell-offs will be met with bargain hunting and rallies with profit-taking. For the bulls. The green shoots - stabilisation and lesser deterioration in economic indicators - provide evidence that, albeit slow, the ...

Sellers beware

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2009
... Be scared...be very scared. Yes, the spooks were out again overnight, sending many investors out of Wall Street. Have the bulls been sucked in? Have the bulls become greater fools? While we were sleeping, the S&P 500 tumbled by 3.1 per cent, taking the ...

Spin-a-win

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2009
... the 3.6 per cent jump in gasoline prices during the month and that discretionary spending remains weak. US jobless claims. Bulls buy on news initial claims fell by 24,000 to a better than expected 601,000 in the week ending 6 June and that the four-week ...

Vantage point

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2009
... expectations for a slight improvement to -35. The unconverted tries to discount these encouraging signs by claiming that bulls are picking on the positive second derivatives - the change in the rate of change - to support their brighter outlook. Well ...