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Australian elections just gave uncertainty a top up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2016
... European Council I thought he went over the top and got carried away when I read Monsieur Tusk's foreboding at the time. I guess the EC president is the one LOL-ing now (at me). But the three most recent polls indicate that an upheaval in "Western political ...

Time to fear the no "fear gauge"?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2016
... even greater correction. The Fed, itself, has warned about complacency breeding excessive risk taking many times before. Guess we'll find out over the coming months if the bulls are right or is it the bears... if or when the Fed acts on its words.

No more tears?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2016
Is it still April Fool's or what? We all know it's just for a day - the 1st of April - but exactly two weeks after, the sun is shining, the sky is blue and everything's looking wonderful for me and you. Yes Virginia, financial markets - or more accurately ...

Easier for as long as necessary?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2016
Funny that. For all the recent rhetoric and commentaries that central banks have become impotent, financial headlines continue to be dominated by the latest policy movements -- or lack thereof -- and current thoughts of, well, central bankers. Such ...

With pretty numbers like these, who needs a rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2016
At the time of this writing, the A$ is fetching around US$0.7350 - after appreciating from US$0.7175 to US$0.7295 after the National Statistician released the Australian economy's scorecard that showed much higher growth than expected in the last quarter ...

Lift then back to zero (even negative)?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2015
... and thus undermine financial stability." How the markets react when lift-off finally becomes official is still anybody's guess. There could be relief as the uncertainty over lift off is lifted and imbibe confidence over the US economic outlook. Or, it ...

Spreading the word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2015

Life Insurance Framework fear fading

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2015
... "Which means that, for us, there's two parts to this: the first is that while we're still working on the framework, which I guess is the regulatory advocacy battle. On the flipside, we've got to build the bridges for the people who have to change their ...

Pick a number

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2015
... regurgitating them on here. Here, I bring back the 'Taylor Rule' - developed by economic professor John B. Taylor - to assess (guess?) the interest rate apropos to the prevailing Australian macro setting. Australia, after all, is one of the few economies ...

Hotel California

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2015
Ho ho ho and ha ha ha. The truth is out. Wall Street dipped overnight and so did the Euro Stoxx 50 - after their strong gains of the past week because, wait for it......because investors suddenly realised that the ECB and the PBOC's early Christmas ...