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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2016
Australia migration The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reports that the percentage of Australian born overseas reached their highest level in "over a century" (120 years). As at 30 June 2015, 28.2% -- or 6.7 million -- of the country's resident ...

Three days to lift off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2015
... continues to price in an 80% chance of a hike... why not 100%? After having talked the talk and prepared the citizens of planet Earth, there remains a 20% chance that it could abort lift-off. Let's not worry that the Fed's favoured inflation gauge - ...

Six point five is PM Li's new like

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2015
... 2.0% target. Yes Virginia, the Fed couldn't... in December. While we continue to speculate on when the Fed will make its "earth-shattering" move, China's already shaking the planet. Perhaps literally as more Chinamen walk the planet soon. Xinhua reports ...

Comparative advantage

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2015
... according to NASA's thinking, "where there is water there might be life". Just think of all the products and services where Earth has a comparative advantage with and can export to Mars.

August angst to September mourn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015
... markets expected. Besides the slowing Chinese economy is old news... it's a known known. Almost every individual on planet earth has speculated, talked and warned about it for as long as I can remember and the People's Bank of China's successive announcement ...

Budget for uncertainty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... data, 'twas only the NAB business survey that the domestic bourse had to react to, then again, the April update was hardly earth-shattering -- business confidence was unchanged at plus 3 in April and "Business conditions retraced some - but not all of ...

It might just be a matter of time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015
... devaluation is a zero sum game... unless, of course, we find life on the moon, on mars or another planet and export planet earth's wares to them. But in the meantime, while we only have planet America to buy our wares, the question is when would Janet ...

Deflation is the Darth Vader of the economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
... world does not understand its impact. It's the Darth Vader of the economy, the Death Star shooting a laser to blow up the Earth."" "Hyperbolic" and a bit over the top perhaps, but the message is the same, deflation is no good.

China growth as Li likes it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2015
... roll. How dare they not give what Prime Minister Li Kequiang likes? Li gets what Li likes, remember? He'll move heaven and earth to get 7.5% -- just as government did to keep the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics rain free back in 2008. I digress. ...

Volatile like its 2011

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
Talk about being careful... for they might come true. 'Twas not so long ago that Janet Yellen, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (FRBSF) and the IMF worried about complacency in the financial markets as indicated by low, down on the ground ...