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Hotel California

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2015
Ho ho ho and ha ha ha. The truth is out. Wall Street dipped overnight and so did the Euro Stoxx 50 - after their strong gains of the past week because, wait for it......because investors suddenly realised that the ECB and the PBOC's early Christmas ...

Christmas in October

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2015
"You better watch out You better not cry You better not pout I'm telling you why..." Central banks are coming to town - and they've loaded lots of toys and goodies on their sleigh. Back to back central bank stimulus measure surprises - promised and ...

Santa Mario brings cheers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2015
Merry Xmas to you too, signore Draghi Only two days before, most have given up expecting more goodies from "Super 'whatever it takes' Mario". No mas, not after the ECB's Bank Lending Survey showed that QE is doing what's intended to do - ease lending ...

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2015
Despite succumbing to heightened financial market volatility in August and September, the Japanese equity market remains an outperformer. From January through to yesterday, 21 October, the Nikkei-225 index has risen by 6.3%. While down from the 19.4% ...

Quantitative easing eases bank lending

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2015

China should have hardlanded

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015
"Believe it or not, I'm walkin' on air... Flyin' away on a wing and a pray'r..." -Joey Scarbury It's tampered with, it's falsified, it's a fabrication, it's embellished! As sure as night follows day, these howls of protest come when China reports growth ...

Lift-off off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
"Recent global economic and financial developments may restrain economic activity somewhat and are likely to put further downward pressure on inflation in the near term." These were the words in the US Federal Reserve's monetary policy statement of ...

WBC rate lift pressures RBA rate cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2015
Who can you bank on, who can you trust? Westpac, you can bank on us! I haven't landed in this great land yet when this catchy jingle from Westpac's ad was playing on Australian TV back in 1989. Thanks to tech magic, I can play, rewind and replay it ...

Big trouble in big China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2015
Here we go again folks, the China is kaput story is back in the headlines again. What went up last week - some through to yesterday - are back down again all because, they say, financial markets didn't like what they saw in the China's trade data where ...

Inflation expectations says no

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2015
Another day, another Fed speaks Fed speak. Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer reportedly "told a group on the sidelines of the International Monetary Fund meeting in Peru" that the Fed will raise interest rates this year. But (of course there's ...