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Wall Street slips on oil slick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... in recent history? We had lotsa lotsa "major geopolitical events" - September 11, North Korea nukes, Thailand coup, China-Japan/Malaysia/Vietnam/Philippines island dispute, Ukraine - yet the S&P 500 index continues to break records. But let's just concentrate ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... Street's record breaking streak came to an end, while Tokyo was hit by a stronger yen as investors looked ahead to a Bank of Japan policy meeting. Tokyo lost 0.64 per cent, or 95.95 points, to finish at 14,973.53 and Seoul eased 0.15 per cent, or 3.02 ...

Australia among the big guns in millionaire stakes

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014
... Boston Consulting Group. Leading the charge in the millionaire stakes were the economic powerhouses of the US, China and Japan (the three largest economies by gross GDP respectively). Rounding out the top five were the UK and Switzerland. The other countries ...

The kindness of central banks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2014
... rate hikes (when they come) would come ever so slowly - the same script the Bank of England's (BOE) following. The Bank of Japan's (BOJ) still QE-ing a-plenty, and depending on how recently-lifted consumption tax affects consumer spending... could QE ...

Everything but the kitchen sink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... effective exercise. Then again, the ECB couldn't do so without being branded a currency manipulator. The same reason why Japan had to go through with its own currency depreciation in a roundabout way.

Waiting for the ECB to exhale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... 0.6% last month from 0.9% in April. If this isn't reason enough, me don't know what is. You, I and Irene only have to look Japan's experience to understand how insidious and debilitating to an economy deflation could be once it takes hold. Consumers ...

Losing shine

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2014
... recession. The Fed is withdrawing stimulus, engendering renewed trust in fiat money and easing inflation fears. The Bank of Japan is in the midst of turning deflation into inflation while the European Central Bank is about to take action to ensure low-flation ...

Help is on its way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2014
... policy is at the effective lower bound and so cannot steer the nominal rate down to compensate." One needs only look at Japan's history for proof of this - when it's economy was described as "bouncing around the bottom" and its monetary policy, one that ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2014
The Australian share market has pushed above the 5,500 mark at the open on the back of a positive lead from markets in the United States last week. "We've just had a positive lead from Friday's trade. The US just kept ticking along nicely," IG market ...

Let's talk about VIX baby

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2014
... longer. So is the Bank of England despite obvious indications of strengthening momentum in the UK economy. So is the Bank of Japan. Monetary policy might be on hold there for now but make no mistake, it could and would goose up the printing presses "if ...