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Cry of the banshee

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2011
... showed an 18K gain in employment in June. But did you know that the household survey showed employment dropped by 445K -- yup also in June. So go figure! Is US employment improving (ADP survey), flat (establishment survey) or cactus (household survey)? ...

Just replace because with despite

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2011
... Don't despair, there's an easy solution and thank your lucky stars we're now using word processors instead of typewriters. Yup, just delete "because" and replace with "despite". Wall Street closed higher "despite" reports confirming that America's economy ...

Bad news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011
... as they should. Perhaps - like moi -- investors still haven't forgotten the AAA grades given by credit ratings agencies - yup, all of them - to CDOs and other structured investment products that later turned out to be worth less than junk. European equities ...

Budget bore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... (see 2010/2011 forecast). The unemployment rate already has a 4 in front of it! And what do we get when we get inflation? Yup, for sure we'll get higher interest rates. Look at what's happening in China, India and other emerging countries. They've been ...

Queen Qaddafi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
Oil is the word, is the word, is the word. Yup there's no turning the pages of the political, economic and financial news without seeing the letters O-I-L these days. And all because of "Queen" Qaddafi's (UK's The Telegraph reported that he "pleaded ...

Inflated inflation scare

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
... night, the money tap will continue to flow. There's really nothing new in his testimony, just a rehash of his 26 January one. Yup, it's the same old, same old stuff that yes the economy is growing (read, my QE is working) but still not enough to produce ...

One voice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2011
... Continent is that governments are very close to agreeing on a cohesive plan to tackle the debt crisis and defend the euro. Yup, they're close to agreeing and... with each other. This alone is a coup in itself and should be cause for celebration. It may ...

Much ado over more of the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
All dressed up and nowhere to go. Yup! Wall Street went nowhere alright. A day before last night's Federal Open Market Committee Meeting (FOMC), Wall Street was all prepped, seemingly ready to take it all, whatever the Fed decides - or more, importantly ...

Make love not leverage

... known to man it seems. Got a beef with globalization? You have a representative there. The war perhaps? Or climate change? Yup, one or two are there shouting your favourite slogan. But in keeping up with what this daily is all about, protesters were ...