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You sexy thing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
... surged three months before Standard & Poor's took away one-A from the US of A's AAA credit rating in August 2011. Yes Virginia, the US dollar has come a long way since, baby. "Everybody wants her, everybody loves her" -- everybody wants to take that ...

It's raining jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2015
It's raining jobs...A hallelujah... it's raining jobs! Yes Virginia, I'm sure that you too are excited (and you can't hide it) seeing the latest instalment of the US non-farm payrolls report that showed most measures up. It was all up for the US labour ...

Super Mario delivers huge stimulus package

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015
... on a cloudy day... I guess you'd say What can make me feel this way?" Mario, Mario, Mario Talkin' 'bout Q-E Q-E. Yes Virginia, he did it. Super Mario brought sunshine to the financial markets on this, a cold and cloudy Frankfurt day. He ended months ...

China growth as Li likes it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2015
... slightly higher or lower than 7.5 percent is acceptable, as long as our development creates jobs, boosts incomes..." Yes Virginia, last year's lower than target growth rate has PM Li's blessing. A rate of 7.4% still still created jobs -- employment increased ...

Oil slide, CEO pay and that "income recession"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2014
... there's no stopping these central banks from doing so. Perhaps, the Fed and the BOE may even join the allied forces. Yes Virginia, it's turning out to be a fight between the central banks - lifting demand - and the OPEC cartel drowning their competition ...

Minute slip on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
... the lines and come up with a rant 10-15 minutes after it's been published - you'll say stuff it too. Simply stupid. Yes Virginia, for how can you reconcile these with the Fed's 29 October decision to go ahead and kill QE? And then, there's the bad news ...

One swallow says it's springtime for Germany

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014
One month's tick up in a single index is all it took for euro area financial markets to go loco. Yes Virginia, they've gone loco over reports that economic sentiment in the region's locomotive - Germany -- rebounded (big time) in November after falling ...

Chocolate biscuits and animal spirits

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
... but we're not done with October yet. While we're waiting let's talk about chocolate biscuits and animal spirits. Yes Virginia, the panel of experts at the CBA's annual Australasian Conference discussed chocolate biscuits and animal spirits a they try ...

Anticipatory and moderate adjustments had become necessary

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014
Li gets what Li likes. Yes Virginia, I've typed this phrase so many, many, many times -- changed from 'Wen gets what Wen wants when Wen wants it' when Li Kequiang took over China's premiership from Wen Jiabao on 13 March 2013 -- on this space before. ...

Super Mario to the rescue (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
... happy that the European Central Bank (ECB) is doing something, anything, to counteract/reverse this state of affairs. Yes Virginia, it wasn't the ECB doing a Fed thing - announce quantitative easing measures - that markets expected, but it's good enough... ...