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Will stocks follow Fed exit to the exits?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2013
... and if it has, then what's wrong with that? We know that the Fed would embark for the exits only after it assesses that America's economic growth has become sustainable. The better-than-expected US retail sales report released overnight (and the bigger-than-forecasts ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2013
... four-week average, a more stable measure, fell to the lowest since March 2008, four months after the economy slid into the Great Recession. The government also delivered positive economic news, reporting that US retail spending increased in February ...

Can't help falling in love with stocks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
... growth in the United States spills over to its trading partners as Americans spend on imported goods. The world is made whole again. Nice happy thoughts, aren't they? But there's also a not so cheery outlook. Though Europe seems at peace at the moment ...

China's turn to provide buy opportunities

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2013
... to happen, didn't it? We've come full circle to the spooks that haunted through most of last year. Two weeks ago it was America and fears of Fed unwinding. Last week it was Italy and scares of a European debt crisis flashback. This week, China's the ...

Super tax concessions not overly generous: Mercer

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2013
Against the backdrop of intense political debate, Mercer has released research which it states proves Australians do not receive unfair tax advantages through superannuation. Today Mercer said that its research "defused" the hotly debated idea that ...

Serpentine fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2013
... collapse. The year the S&P 500 index dove by 38.5% and the year that the median price of existing one-family homes in America dropped by 14.6%. Oh and by the way, the title was from the hit song by the band Earth, Wind & Fire - the three elements of ...

US credit rating threatened, buy US bonds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2013
... probably haven't noticed - or simply didn't care - but Fitch Ratings is about to do a Standard & Poor's. Fitch warned America that it's got its scissors out, ready to snip an A off Uncle Sam's AAA rating. According to David Riley -- head of Fitch's sovereign-rating ...

Giving thanks to thanksgiving

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2012
... And it might already be multiplying. You may have already read about the weaker-than-expected 'Black Friday' shopping in America. ShopperTrak reports that Black Friday sales were down 1.8% over the same day last year. Then again, if you look closely ...

Thank you, xie xie, arigato

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012

Uncertainty goes uncertainty comes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2012
... aftermath of Hurricane Sandy - reportedly the largest Atlantic hurricane on record and affected at least 24 states in America. Ms. Levitt was talking about the uncertainty of the hurricane's damage to her home. "Even if we had damage, you just want to ...