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Asia: Between fortune and fate

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... performing asset class for the year to 13 July 2015. They returned 19.9% over the year, according to data from Thomson Reuters quoted by the BlackRock Investment Institute. However, Chinese mainland shares have experienced sharp falls that have led the ...

Five minutes of commodity sunshine?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
... Castparts' scripts - reviving market focus on M&A deals. Gotta get in before funding costs become more expensive. As per Reuters, "With US interest rates near zero for nearly a decade, debt has been cheap. But with the Federal Reserve widely expected ...

Water, water everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
... Interest rate expectations were pushed back to mid-2016 from early 2016 (or even late this year) because, according to Reuters, "just one of its nine policymakers - Ian McCafferty - had voted for a rate hike at their August meeting... Most economists ...

Indian economy accelerating/slowing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015
... cent for January 2016". However, the pick-up in economic growth in the March quarter - a sharp one at that - is, to quote Reuters, "at odds with other indicators such as industrial production, trade and tax collection figures, which suggest the economy ...

Reading too much out of nothing at all

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2015
... of labor conditions since its last policy meeting in June, when it said labor slack had "diminished somewhat."" This is Reuters talkin' 'bout the change in the Fed's language to "On balance, a range of labor market indicators suggest that underutilization ...

Chinese whispers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
... "market stabilising" QEs before it, you don't take away the drip when the patient's still in the emergency ward. In fact, as Reuters reports, "China said on Monday it was prepared to buy shares to stabilize the stock market and avert "systemic risks" ...

Stirred but not shaken

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015
... depositors and policymakers will have been breached. There are significant problems behind the curtain." And this from Reuters (18 March 2013), about the ordinary Cypriots' reaction to bail-out conditions: "We are hugely disappointed by our so-called ...

A Greek offer that cannot be refused

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2015
... insisted that Greece will remain in the euro and has threatened legal challenges to any action aimed at expelling it." ( Reuters ) However, Plan B involves asking 'the institutions' for euros to pay for the lawyers (and at this level they will be very ...

An ordinary trading day on D-day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2015
... said stuff it... and then blinked. The clock struck twelve... "Greece becomes first advanced economy in arrears to IMF" ( Reuters ) "The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday confirmed Greece had not made its 1.5 billion euro loan repayment to the Fund ...

The Fed is Greek too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2015
... latest Fedspeak is that a lift-off wouldn't come in September or December but in September AND December. According to Reuters, "Federal Reserve Governor Jerome Powell on Tuesday said the U.S. economy could be ready for a first interest rate hike in September ...