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Glum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2010
... 2009 - somewhere around 6,500 points. We'll get more clues tonight whether we're really headed back into the abyss when Big Ben addresses world central bankers at Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He's going to talk on "The Economic Outlook and the Federal Reserve's ...

Fictional fact

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2010
... Someone once said that, "to ignore the facts doesn't change the facts" but what if no one's sure what the facts are? Even Big Ben's "unusually uncertain". Hope he's not letting the headlines determine what the facts are.

Which way USA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2010
... than it answered. And if I may add, the National Accounts can still be interpreted both ways - good and bad. Is this what Big Ben Bernanke referring to when he made that now famous "unusually uncertain" economic outlook? Initial estimates by the US Commerce ...

Wall Street takes a dive

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2010
... took before Briggs hit the canvass... but the result was the same. Share prices "dove" after, according to media reports, Big Ben in the red corner landed a knock out punch with his words, "the economic outlook remains unusually uncertain." The printed ...

Mood change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2010
... fear that had been feeding on itself for months now. Although, he didn't say much that the markets already didn't know, Big Ben Bernanke may have provided this spark. "My best guess is we will have a continued recovery, but it won't feel terrific." And ...

Stimulate and die

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2010
They love him, they love him not. This is what the financial markets' two-day love-in with Big Ben Bernanke appears to be indicating -- loved one day, ignored the next. Yes Virginia, although there's nothing new between his comments he made at the Woodrow ...

The future according to Ben

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUN 2010
... recovery, but it won't feel terrific." This is the future according to Ben. Spoken like a real trooper. With these words, Big Ben appears to have calmed financial markets - equity and commodity markets rose and the euro rebounded. It's all good. This ...

Wall Street beauties

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2010
What's better than the Dow passing 11,000 and the S&P 500 jumping beyond 1,200? When they're backed by fundamentals and not wishful skips in the dark. Yes ladies and gents, although I warned yesterday that Wall Street's uptrend could run out of steam ...

Paradox of thrift

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2010
So what happened to the post-Easter elation on Wall Street? It appears that it has been flushed down the gurgler like the Easter eggs that were consumed days before. Remember how the US payrolls report was spun favourably despite coming in worse than ...

Land of the free money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2010
Fed feeds equity market fervour. If you look at today's headlines, this is the message the various financial news services are trying to convey. "Wall St ends on 17-month high as rates hold" was Reuters' headline. Bloomberg had "U.S. Stocks Rise as ...