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All that jazz, all nonsense

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2014
... effectively raising the E (earnings) in the P/E (price-earnings) ratio and ultimately, correct this overvaluation? But you, I and Irene already know this. So please accept my apologies for writing this nonsense piece about a whole lotta nonsense about ...

Independence Day for the US economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
... end that we saw last night. This is because I also Fed Chair Yellen's yellin' three months ago, when she told you, I and Irene about the "considerable slack" in the labour market. "Large numbers of partly unemployed workers, stagnant wages, lower labor-force ...

Slow and steady as she goes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
... Statistics (BLS) releases the official jobs tally for June... but this, too, had been trending sideways since 2011. You, I and Irene need more than one month's data point to get a full picture of the US labour market's trajectory - whether it's really ...

US bond yields zipped by ZIRP?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
... three key variables is still not the 'be all' and 'end all' for the when of the first rate hike. The Fed told you, I and Irene so... only less than two weeks ago: "In determining how long to maintain the current 0 to 1/4 percent target range for the ...

But they said it was Iraq

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
... as US economic growth remains not good enough for the Fed, monetary policy would remain good for markets. Lest you, I and Irene forget, Aunt Janet is still printing US$45 billion this month and would continue printing US$35 billion in July. Yes, yes ...

Good or bad, it's all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
... improving and bad (which is good for policy). Unfortunately for the bloggetariats, Wall Street ended flat else you, I and Irene would be reading headlines talkin' 'bout concerns that the third estimate of US first quarter GDP growth is expected to be ...

Wall Street slips on oil slick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... (well, relatively) overnight. It slipped on oil. Tweet, tweet. It's because Gulf War III, here we come... maybe. You, I and Irene know so very well what happens to the price of oil each time trouble percolates in the sand dunes of the Middle East, don't ...

Indian optimism

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014
... needed but that's only if... inflation eases to 8.0% by January next year and 6.0% the year after. But never you, I and Irene mind. Inflation may have strait-jacketed the RBI but Mr. Modi's single party majority place him in good stead to enact policies ...

The kindness of central banks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2014
... goes the world follows - European stocks are at six year highs and Asian ones at their highest in three years. You, I and Irene know how we got here. We got here through the kindness of the world's biggest central banks - ZIRP (zero interest rate policy) ...

Waiting for the ECB to exhale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... to an annual rate of 0.6% last month from 0.9% in April. If this isn't reason enough, me don't know what is. You, I and Irene only have to look Japan's experience to understand how insidious and debilitating to an economy deflation could be once it takes ...