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Bad tidings we bring

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2009
... to 2 per cent this week. A bigger-than-expected rate cut should not be discounted given the fast deterioration in the Eurozone economy. The Bank of Japan's armory is empty and it has resorted to selling bonds to finance its efforts to support its weakening ...

China syndrome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2008
... is slowing. Persistent punches by the global financial crisis has knocked out the economies of the United States, the Eurozone, Japan and the United Kingdom to name a few. By its sheer size and ongoing industrialisation and urbanisation, China was widely ...

Filled half-empty glass

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2008
... will eventually be swallowed by the global financial crisis that has already gobbled the big economies of the US, the Eurozone, Japan and the UK. As the GFC continues to bite, demand for Australia's exports will continue to decelerate. Falling commodity ...

Mr. Scrooge's Ghosts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2008
... businesses turn to Scrooge, the global economy also turns to Scrooge. News overnight shows that manufacturing in the US, the Eurozone, China, Russia and South Africa are shrinking. More will follow. Ghost of Christmas Past. Low interest rates and lax ...

Four Bad 'Bers'

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2008
... discover that Santa is not real and that their stockings remain filled with toxic debts. This week the central banks of the Eurozone, the United Kingdom and Australia will meet to deliberate on monetary policy settings for their respective economies. ...

Main Street is burning

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2008
... announcement made tangible the nasty effects of a contracting economy. Two of the biggest economies in the world - Japan and the Eurozone -- are now officially in recession. And while the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Business Cycle Dating ...

All together now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2008
... meeting produced an action plan to revive growth in the world economy - fitting given this coincided with news that the Eurozone has officially fallen into recession - and deter a repeat of the current financial market mayhem that all are now experiencing. ...

The good oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2008
... the coming months. This is not surprising given that the big economies of the United States, the United Kingdom, the Eurozone and Japan are on the precipice of a recession. In addition, even China is feeling the pinch. Slower economic growth equals less ...

Mine's bigger than yours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
... all rate cuts. Last week central banks in Australia, South Korea, India, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Switzerland and the Eurozone all cut interest rates by between 25 and 75 basis points. But the Crocodile Dundees at the BoE showed them what a rate cut ...

The other race

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2008
... Australia into its first recession in 17 years. Going by reported economic statistics, the big economies of the US, the Eurozone, Japan and the UK among others are already halfway there. But it is more probable that these nations are already past the ...