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Chinalising Europe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2011
... economy." I'm so scared! How many times have we heard this one before? Many, many times. How many times have these China hard landing been proven wrong? All the time. And this is because most capitalism-trained analysts and economists are viewing China ...

Tell someone who cares

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2011
... November. Oh-em-gee! Europe might be headed for a greater than "mild" recession. Oh-em-gee! China could be in for a hard landing. Oh-em-gee, improvement in the US labour market remains painfully slow. Yeah right. Tell someone who cares! No one seemed ...

Party in the making

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2011
... plummeted to 46.8 from 50.2 last month. Fortunately for us antipodes, China's latest PMI reading debunked views of a hard landing. HSBC's flash PMI index rose to 51.1 - the highest in five months - in October from 49.9 last month. Now what was that scary ...

Market Report- Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2011
... 49.9 in September, the British banking giant said, lifting hopes that the world's second-largest economy can avoid a hard landing. A reading above 50 indicates the sector is expanding, while a reading below 50 suggests a contraction. The final reading ...

Good news, bad headline

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 OCT 2011
... developed world in a funk? Please. A few would no doubt use this latest "soft figure" to justify their calls for a China hard landing. If they don't stop whatever it is they're smoking, they'll land on their butts. As for moi, it justifies my view that ...

Bear killer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2011
... about gloom, doom and no boom. His thesis, "Forget the EU Debt Crisis, A China Meltdown Is The Real Threat". A China hard landing would devastate the global economy...is bearish for commodities... stay away from the Australian and Canadian dollars. And ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011
... bag of figures from Beijing indicated that while the world's number-two economy was likely to not be heading for a hard landing, the outlook remained unclear. Tokyo ended 1.18 per cent, or 105.60 points, higher at 9,060.80 and Sydney added 0.26 per cent ...

Net-net, it's still good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2011
... some more. As for China, it'll just continue to grow nicely thank you very much. Those who continue to fret about a hard landing there are watching Beijing through capitalists' eyes - it is not. Continued growth in China translates into continued good ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
... per cent. The news dispelled concerns that a string of interest rate hikes by Beijing would lead the economy to a hard landing, economists said. However, they did warn that prices could be capped by a worsening global economic outlook, with fears the ...

Knights in shining armour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
... services. The June quarter number is better than market expectations for an expansion of only 9.3%. Where's your hard landing scare now 'ey, you scare mongers you? That's China as Sir Lancelot. But there's another knight fighting the blues away across ...