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Threat of Lehmannisation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2009
... and Russia and other holders of US Treasuries and UK Gilts are right to be concerned. Bond yields are rising in both economies and this is showing signs of persistence. Although for the most part this is attributed to the return of normality in the financial ...

Slippery - watch your step

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2009
... No one would have picked this looking at the economic scorecard and industrial activity data in the world's biggest economies. The US economy contracted by 2.5 per cent in the year to the March quarter; Japan's has shrunk by 9.1 per cent; the Eurozone's ...

Club Plus overhauls Aussie eq

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2009
... they drastically reduced their manager line-up is that they had too many relative to size. "We didn't really have the economies of scale [to have] the managers that we had - we're really looking for the best of the best, and having individual mandates ...

Good news in inaction

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2009
... recession - its major export market - but rising commodity prices should aid in its economic repair. The risk for these economies now lie in their rising exchange rates vis-a--vis the US dollar. Because their appreciating currencies act as a de facto ...

Up and over in the land downunder

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2009
... up roughly only two per cent of the global economy - could ever swim against the vortex of the GFC that has sunk the economies of the big boys. 'I'll have what Australia's having.' No doubt this would be the envious chorus from the 29 other member countries ...

Darling buds of May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2009
... those investors who decide to stay. I pointed to improving dynamics - second derivatives they may be - in the big three economies (US, Japan, China) and how this is improving confidence in Europe and the rest of the world. Sure there were bumps along ...

We've left bottom

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
... months. Note that equity markets did not completely come undone until this index peaked in mid-2008. Back then, emerging economies were thought to provide a cushion to deteriorating conditions in the developed nations. But as the financial crisis turned ...

No two ways about it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
... rating agencies' excuse? Their ratings constitute only a 'point in time' analysis! Deficits are necessary to stabilize economies during times of recession. Large deficits are necessary during deep recessions. Unless spent on unproductive pursuits, these ...

Acronyms pull down USD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
... produce. Print a lot of dollars and they will come. Beggar thy neighbour. Gauging from first quarter growth tallies, the economies of Japan, the Eurozone and the UK are in much, much worse shape than the American economy. Certainly they are the ones ...

Seeking equilibrium

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2009
... dropped to a record low of 494,000 during the month. This is exactly what I referred to when I wrote two days ago that, ' Economies are currently at their inflection points. This is a time when economic indicators give contradicting evidences of the ...