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Chief economist update: Powell Power

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2018
... may have a Santa Claus rally this year after all! US Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell spooked us all - in the Halloween month of October - when, in an interview with PBS, he declared that: "The really extremely accommodative low interest rates ...

Chief economist update: BOJ on a steady

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2018
... Bank of Japan (BOJ) starts its two-day monetary policy meeting today and it's not about to give financial markets a Halloween spook when it announces the policy board's decision tomorrow. Monetary policy settings will remain unchanged - policy ...

Chief economist update: Wall Street has fallen, prepare to be greedy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2018
... fallen! Repeat, Wall Street has fallen! The financial headlines made sure that you, I and Irene are spooked even before Halloween - with accompanying rationales at that. Wall Street plunges as investors seek safety - Sky News Sudden jump in US interest ...

The BOJ's boring Halloween

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2017
Halloween 2017 may have produced some palpitations as kids (and the kids at heart) went trick or treating, but for the Bank of Japan (BOJ) 'twas a fairly ho-hum event. At the conclusion of its 30-31 October policy meeting, the Japanese central served ...

Trump and Brexit comes back to haunt

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2016
Just when we thought Halloween was over, things are still going bump day and night. Things like the VIX - "fear" - index. It bumped up to a reading of 22.1 overnight, just six points shorts of this year's high of 28.1 reached on the 11th of February. ...

Goodbye QE, hello QQE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
... hello" -- The Beatles Just as the Fed concluded QE3, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) served up the biggest trick or treat this Halloween by expanding its QQE. The trick. Not even a full month before (7 October), in its monetary policy statement, the Japanese ...

New masters of universe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
Looks like Halloween has come early to Wall Street. Equity indices fell -- big time -- on 'The Street' right at the stroke of October. The Dow's down 1.4% (with Transport down 2.5%); the S&P 500 fell 1.3%; the Nasdaq's off 1.6% and the Russell 2000's ...

Bears out a-haunting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013
... The bears will be coming out in force a-haunting. Whoops, sorry... they have already. But never mind, we're close to Halloween anyways. PIMCO CEO and co-CIO Mohamed El-Arian takes first bite. "You will have cascading failure, multiple defaults, and Treasuries ...

Not long now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012
... disruption would depend on how long Frankie lingers and how much damage Frankie does. But ultimately, it should just be a Halloween visit to New York and the northeastern seaboard by Frankie. The bigger forward picture lies on the upcoming US employment ...

Wen again gets what Wen wants

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012
... right Virginia. It's the greeting we hear (if I spelled it correctly) when the Chinese New Year comes around. For like Halloween and Xmas, it also appears to have come early. Sing Hallelujah! Sing it. Sing Hallelujah! (Dr. Alban) The world must be beaming ...
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