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Current Edition Volume 5 Number 1 Subscribe to Journal of Investment Strategy Events Calendar Feb 15 - SPAA SMSF National Conference 15 - FSC Leadership Series 2012 21 - Finsia's Covered Bonds Seminar – NSW 21 - Finsia's Trends in Mergers & Acquisitions - VIC 28 - Finsia's Covered Bonds Seminar – VIC FSiTV Financial Standard iPad app Research Platform Report Hedge Funds Mandate Chaser Roundup Advantage Benchmarking Contact Us	Blogs Forecasts Shmorecasts By Benjamin Ong \| 0 Comments Wednesday, 25 January 2012 3:42pm We're doomed (again)! Oh-em-gee! "IMF slashes growth forecasts!" This was the last piece of news I saw before I went to bed last night and started snoring. Yeah, yeah I thought. Sure, sure. Somehow it ... Read more Tell someone who cares! By Benjamin Ong \| 0 Comments Tuesday, 6 December 2011 8:51am Tell someone who cares! There were reports out while we slept that could have been blamed for the equity markets returning some of the gains made during yesterday's rally but somehow they didn't have the ... Read more The good, the bad and the whatever By Benjamin Ong \| 0 Comments Thursday, 13 October 2011 1:47pm There's good news to stir the animal spirits among the bulls, bad news to keep the bears on the pounce and news we can classify as 'whatever' to keep the chatter alive - for both bears and bulls. First ... Read more S.O.S By Benjamin Ong \| 0 Comments Friday, 5 August 2011 9:33am "So when you're near me, darling can't you hear me S. O. S. The love you gave me, nothing else can save me S. O. S. When you're gone How can I even try to go on? When you're gone Though I try how can I ... Read more Carbon blast from the GST past By Benjamin Ong \| 0 Comments Tuesday, 19 July 2011 11:52am We've witnessed the same arguments -- pros and cons, winners and losers - and scares before, during and after the GST (goods and services tax) was introduced on 1 July 2000 - the biggest economic reform ... Read more European authorities will blink By Benjamin Ong \| 0 Comments Tuesday, 21 June 2011 3:40pm It's got the euro in its hands. It's got the whole world in its hands. There's some semblance of relative calm on financial markets overnight. Wall Street reversed early losses and closed higher. European ... Read more No-bull bull market By Benjamin Ong \| 0 Comments Monday, 28 March 2011 9:01am "I get knocked down But I get up again You're never going to keep me down…" -- Chumbawamba Well, well, what do you know Deuce Bigalow? The biggest drop in the equity markets so far this year now ... Read more Buy a toaster By Benjamin Ong \| 0 Comments Friday, 4 March 2011 11:25am "Do I feel lucky?" Well do ya, punk?" -Dirty Harry Certainly Queen Qaddafi is not feeling lucky. So is Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman (that other oil producer) -- the Jasmine Revolutionaries are now marching ... Read more Good for nothing war By Benjamin Ong \| 0 Comments Monday, 18 October 2010 5:24pm "War! huh-yeah What is it good for? Absolutely nothing…" Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong wrote this song in 1969 in protest of the Vietnam War. Its lyrics talk about the lost of lives and ... Read more Snakes and ladders By Benjamin Ong \| 0 Comments Wednesday, 15 September 2010 4:44pm The three days that straddled Labor Day on 'The Street' provided a perfect specimen of investors' one data point to the next data point existence. Day 1. Overall US non-farm payrolls fell by less ... Read more The Fed did it By Benjamin Ong \| 0 Comments Wednesday, 18 August 2010 4:01pm Ouch! Now that hurt, didn't it? Of course it did. Wall Street has played its role according to script the day after the US Federal Reserve announced that it was "reinvesting principal payments from agency ... Read more Half-filled By Benjamin Ong \| 0 Comments Wednesday, 21 July 2010 9:35pm Another set of dismal data again failed to get Wall Street down last night. Big-named US companies that reported their second-quarter results overnight came up short of expectations and worse, some even ... Read more A stitch in time By Benjamin Ong \| 0 Comments Friday, 25 June 2010 10:47am Finally! That source of international angst and condemnation, that much debated, much awaited Chinese currency revaluation is coming! It's good news for financial markets. Positive speculation abound after ... Read more Gold is hip again By Benjamin Ong \| 0 Comments Thursday, 20 May 2010 10:25am Hang on to your hats … volatility has returned. We're in trouble again!And you know we're in trouble if that metal whose main use is to adorn the ears, noses, fingers and arms - and for some ... Read more Knee-jerk reaction to delayed action By Benjamin Ong \| 0 Comments Thursday, 29 April 2010 12:36pm Here we go again! The rough and tumble of Wall Street on display as investors knee-jerkingly reacts to what is - in the words of Donald Rumsfeld - a "known known."The problem that just won't ... Read more A war the US can't win By Benjamin Ong \| 0 Comments Thursday, 18 March 2010 12:51pm The good old US of A is again drawing up battle plans in preparation for an assault on China's WMD (weapon of mass destruction) - the renminbi. But China is not budging … not one bit. Regular readers ... Read more Extrapolate at your own risk By Benjamin Ong \| 0 Comments Friday, 12 March 2010 11:22am Is it just me or has anyone else noticed that many, if not all, financial and investment market commentaries have been singing praises to emerging markets these days? 'Gotta have emerging markets in your ... Read more I say high, you say low By Benjamin Ong \| 0 Comments Monday, 22 February 2010 3:28pm Remember these lyrics from the Beatles' 'Hello, Goodbye' hit?"You say yes, I say no You say stop and I say go, go, go … I say high, you say low You say why, and I say I don't know" This seems ... Read more
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