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The kindness of central banks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2014
S&P 500 2000 here we come! It won't be long now. Yes Virginia, with the S&P 500 index less than 50 points away (or 2.5%) from the 2,000-point milestone it'll just a few more sleeps and it'll be there - my back of the envelope calculation show that the ...

Waiting for the ECB to exhale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
Push has now come to shove. Yes Virginia, freshly-released data on the state of inflation and unemployment may have just done it - that is, remove whatever doubts linger that Super Mario's coming back to save the eurozone. The European Central Bank ...

Growth and consequence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2014
... about action... but as I said before, after having seen the Staff projections that will come out in early June." Yes Virginia, Super Mario added an escape clause -- "after seeing Staff projections" - but the latest economic growth update on the single ...

Masseurs Tony and Joey

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014
Phew! Well that wasn't so bad after all. Yes Virginia, if you didn't fall asleep listening to Treasurer Joe Hockey's budget speech last night - mainly because most of the measures Joey mentioned were already drip-fed to us days in advanced - you'll ...

May the Fed be with you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
... federal funds rate below levels the Committee views as normal in the longer run." Haven't we heard all these before? Yes Virginia, we have... but there's something soothing and reassuring to be told repeatedly that the Fed would lurve you, I and Irene ...

BOE has a problem to smile about

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
... International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicted -- only last night - to be the fastest growing among the G7 this year. Yes Virginia, the IMF sees the UK expanding by 2.9% in 2014 and by 2.5% in 2015 and... if you look at 2012's growth of 0.3% and 2013's ...

Front-runners

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
In big picture terms, not much happened last week. Yes Virginia, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept policy unchanged - as expected. The European Central Bank (ECB) guided forward but also stayed on the sidelines. US non-farm payrolls added another ...

Considerable time to eliminate considerable slack

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
A change of noun is all it took. Yes Virginia, by just changing the noun that followed the word "considerable", Fed Chair Janet Yellen put the smile back on many a-Wall Streeter's faces. Less than two weeks ago, Janet explained the considerable "time" ...

First quarter stasis and A$ ADHD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2014
... thought, picking the equity market is tough... say a little prayer for those who earn their dough trading real doughs. Yes Virginia, it's splashed all over the front pages today. The Australian dollar has climbed to a four-month high (and rising?). The ...

You go NZ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2014
... so many iterations about China, Russia/Ukraine/US, Euro deflationary threat and Japanese consumption tax threat. Yes Virginia, the RBNZ exited the club - the record low interest rates developed nations' club - this morning with its decision to raise ...