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Stimulate or deflate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2015
... sentiment, but they'll also turn on a dime the next day or the following week. Write to mommy about the growing worry about deflation (which is bad) and the growing number of central banks trying to head it off (which is good). Yup, you got it, we've ...

Easing here, there and everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2015
... economies - mainly currency depreciation - but at the same time "beggars their neighbour" by exporting their weakness and deflation elsewhere. The latest HSBC/Markit Economics and the official manufacturing PMI indices show that these are taking its ...

When Harry met Sally syndrome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
Seems like more and more central banks - big and small - are getting the 'when Harry met Sally syndrome' - "I'll have what she's having". The Swiss National Bank jumpstarted it all with its "surprise" decision to abandon its CHF1.20/euro peg. This was ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
... the 5.0 per cent in the prior quarter. Eurozone consumer prices fell by a record 0.6 per cent in January, confirming deflation could be taking hold for the long term, EU data showed. In local economic news on Monday, the Reserve Bank of Australia's index ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher, following strong gains on Wall Street. At 0653 AEDT on Friday, the March share price index futures contract was up 47 points at 5,553. In local economic news on Friday, the Reserve Bank of Australia will ...

Deflation is the Darth Vader of the economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
... dA(C)jA vu. For it was around this time last year, in Davos, that ECB president Mario Draghi also poo-poohed the risk of deflation. This was Rueters' headline on 24 January 2014, "ECB's Draghi doesn't see deflation in euro area". By December of that ...

A Fed surprise?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015
... sanguine about the BOJ and the ECB's moves - their reasons are rational after all, to counter slow growth and turn back deflation into inflation. Forgive them for they definitely know what they do. Ba ha ha! I laugh because I see this simply as a currency ...

Super Mario delivers huge stimulus package

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015
... asset purchases will be subject to a regime of risk sharing." In the ECB's words, the decision was taken "to counter" deflation dynamics -- and "the potential for second-round effects on wage and price-setting" - the still sizeable "economic slack" and ...

AMP Capital issues deflation warning

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2015
AMP Capital head of investment strategy and chief economist Shane Oliver has warned investors to be wary of deflation but is optimistic that any ill effects will be short-lived. "In the current environment sustained deflation could cause problems. Falling ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2015
... sovereign bond-buying program, known as quantitative easing (QE), to boost the sagging 19-nation economy and combat deflation, but analysts and investors remain uncertain over the exact size of the stimulus. In recent days some analysts have suggested ...