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Fall on the Wall

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2012
... rationale argument, "the minutes are a bit stale" for "we have some data since then that is stronger." He may be right. US eco stats - retail sales, consumer confidence, industrial production and the index of leading economic indicators - released last ...

No more fear - maybe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2012
... there's Factor X - whatever that may turn out to be. Remember Murphy's Law. However, the flow of better than expected US eco stats over the past few months provide a better-than-even chance that Wall Street might pull this one off without experiencing ...

Party in the making

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2011
... plot of land first. What do you need? A bulldozer. Where do you buy it? Caterpillar. This, along with other good US eco stats reported earlier, makes it hardly surprising that US real GDP growth is being revised up. It's now expected to expand at a 2.5% ...

Boing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011
Boing! That's the sound heard all over Wall Street overnight - the sound of rebounding US eco stats, that is. The Street jumped high and pushed the S&P 500 up by 1.1% to its highest close since the 10th of May and 10 points shy of the three-year summit ...

All good but for the dollar A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2011
... under. Speaking of which, Wall Street erased the previous day's big time gains achieved "despite" weaker-than-expected US eco stats - and ended down and under bigger time overnight "because" of weaker-than-expected US eco stats. Go figure.
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