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China's mean regression

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2014
... S&P 500 and the Russell 2000 closed 0.2% and 0.1% lower. No one wants to jump in or out before Aunt Janet tells you, I and Irene for sure that QE's done but more importantly, what happens next. While we wait... and wish and hope and pray (not long now) ...

Volatile like its 2011

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
... reading of 31.06 while we slept.A That's the highest case of the jitters since November 2011. That was the time you, I and Irene were concerned over the probability of a break up in the single currency area and, at the time, the looming recession there ...

Un-taper re-reflate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
... by US$10 billion each month over the past seven months, the US central bank was still adding fresh mints for you, I and Irene to play with. This month, the last remaining manna from the Fed would be no more - if things go according to plan. However ...

Seesaw on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
... produced Wall Street's saw while we slept. For now Virginia, the Fed has admitted - in black and white - what you, I and Irene knew all along, that whatever they decide on could come back to bite them on their collective behinds and... ultimately, Uncle ...

Super Mario dropkicks markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
... MFIs domiciled in the euro area under a new covered bond purchase programme (CBPP3)" starting in October - told you, I and Irene that, "The detailed modalities of these programmes will be announced after the Governing Council meeting of 2 October 2014". ...

Someone mentioned the "S-word" on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014

Thrills, spills and chills

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
... Scotland). Last week there was China too - all the nasties were out - indicators pointing to a (yikes) slowdown. You, I and Irene became afraid, very afraid. Until, and as expected, the People's Bank of China (PBOC), according to sina.com, implements ...

"Considerable time", is it a-changin'?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2014
... these words are the words "considerable" and "time" - the words Aunt Janet Yellen had been consistently promising you, I and Irene about the when the fed funds rate would move. It was there last time the Federal Open Market Committee met in July: "The ...

A tale of two A's

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2014
... worked?), and of course, of course, speculation that the Fed and the BOE's are going for liftoff sooner than you, I and Irene expect which, in turn, would prompt unwinding of carry trades. And oh, there's also a case of investor positioning ahead of ...

Super Mario to the rescue (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
... 0.2%); and, lowering the marginal lending facility rate to 0.3%. No one expected this. Not after the Mario told you, I and Irene back in June - when the ECB last cut rates - that, "for all practical purposes, we have reached the lower bound". Never mind ...