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Tony, SBY and Janet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2013
... the headlines are still talking about bubbles. I experienced first hand the pop in October 1987, Japan in 1989, the Asian Crisis in 1997/98, the dotcoms in 2000 and the GFC in 2008. Everyone and his dog and the shoeshine boys and taxi drivers talked ...

The death of QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2013
... historic role - that of shielding the economy from the pitfalls of our bigger neighbours as it has done during the 1997 Asian crisis, the 1998 LTCM bankruptcy and Russian debt default, September 11, 2001, the 2002 US recession and the 2008 global financial ...

Quo vadis dollar-A?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2013
... does what it does best - restore equilibrium in the economy. The A$ absorbed some of the negative shocks from the Asian crisis when it dropped from more than US$0.80 to below US$0.60. It deflected the fallout from the 2001 US recession and September ...

Emerging market bubbles present opportunity: Tyndall

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2012
... emerging markets were out of favour as we heard about one crisis after another. There was the Mexican crisis, the Asian crisis, the Argentina crisis, there was a run on the Russian currency. "Now all the crises are in the West. The euro is facing collapse ...

Be glad for A$ weakness

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2011
... field that would shield us from one, two or all of the above. The A$ absorbed some of the negative shocks from the Asian Crisis when it dropped from more than US$0.80 to below US$0.60. It deflected the fallout from the 2001 US recession and September ...

Up, down or sideways

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2011
... shocks that threaten the economy in times of crisis. The A$ dropped from more than US$0.80 to below US$0.60 during the Asian Crisis. It fell from US$0.65 to below US$0.50 during the 2001 US recession and September 11. And then again during the GFC. By ...

Greenback weakness not all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2009
... financial crisis. Recall what happened to the Asian economies when their currencies went into freefall during the Asian Crisis of 1997/98. A precipitous fall in the greenback would push US inflation up, interest rates up, economy down. Back to square ...

Aussie dollar rises to restore equilibrium

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2009
... shocks that threaten the economy in times of crisis. The A$ dropped from more than US$0.80 to below US$0.60 during the Asian Crisis. It fell from US$0.65 to below US$0.50 during the 2001 US recession and September 11. And then again during the GFC. By ...

Regulate...then regulate some more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2009
... suffered any more recessions, the 1987 Stock market Crash did not happen, the dotcom bubble continues to bubble, the Asian Crisis was just a figment of the imagination, and LTCM - the forerunner of too big to fail institutions - did not collapse. During ...

GMO opens EM portfolio to new frontiers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2008
... was in the process of registering with the SEC to launch a frontier market fund but decided against it after the 'Asian crisis' occurred. Meanwhile, Vangelisti said the definition of a 'frontier country' now is completely different to the definition ...