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Good for now worrying for later

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAR 2017
... conditions 5, "consistent with solid business activity in the near-term, and are higher than through much of H2 2016". No Virginia, the sky is not falling. More so because the February "give back" didn't come as a surprise either. NAB chief economist ...

Will 2017 be a mirror image of 2016?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 JAN 2017
... landing. Not surprisingly, gloom and doom was the catchphrase in the early days of last year. Just in case you've forgotten Virginia, here's 'The Telegraph's" headline (dated 11 January 2016), "RBS cries 'sell everything' as deflationary crisis nears" ...

The Fed lady and the Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 DEC 2016
... into play, is here and now today." -Donny Osmond, 'This is the moment" Well, Wednesday (14 December 2016), to be precise Virginia - the day when the Fed finally gets to go ahead and push rate hike button numero dos. The second coming if you will. You ...

Trump is heaven's gift to central banks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2016
Be careful what you wish for... No Virginia, except for Putin, the majority of world leaders didn't wish for Trump. So far away from Good Friday, they would have crucified US presidential "candidate" Donald Trump (if that was legal). In mid-January ...

Trump and Brexit comes back to haunt

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2016
... these days. These two sources of current market uncertainty were sown sometime back around the middle of last year. Yes Virginia. It was on 7 May 2015 when David Cameron and his Conservative Party won (with an outright majority) what was then thought ...

Slow, slower, slowing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2016
... big and small - are all designed to lift growth and inflation at home, they are also beggaring their neighbours. Yes Virginia, they're called "QE's" or "LTRO's" or "OMT's" or Quantitative and Qualitative Easing with a Negative Interest Rate" or "New ...

Yellen speaks Fedspeak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2016
It's live! It'll be one of those Septembers to remember. This, Virginia, is if you believe many (not most) of the post-Jackson Hole commentaries that littered world wide web dissecting US Fed Chair Janet Yellen's words. She said so many things, so many ...

Vulnerable clients easily manipulated: study

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2016
... clients. The major university study was conducted by Thorp, professor Julie Agnew of the College of William and May, Virginia, USA; Professor Hazel Bateman of UNSW, Dr Christine Eckert of the UTS Business School; the ANU's Dr Fedor Iskhakiv and professor ...

Read the data not the Fed's lips

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2016
Yes, no, maybe, I don't know. Sit down, buckle up and hang on Virginia for we're heading into the 'Hole' - Jackson Hole, that is. There'll be to-ing and fro-ing aplenty leading up to Janet's homily at 'The Hole' this coming Thursday and Friday and perhaps ...

Australian elections just gave uncertainty a top up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2016
... Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) declared that it could take up to two weeks before the final results are known. Yes Virginia, we've joined the "United Kingdoom" and Spain in limboland. Not only for the next two weeks while awaiting Australia's ...