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Seesaw on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
... see dead people". Perhaps the Fed has found religion, for this wasn't its mantra about a year ago when it was telegraphing taper. Rewind back to late 2013 when taper talks were roiling emerging markets because most expected the Fed to start taper in ...

Now where have I heard that before?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014
... But we've down this 2014 road before. January 24 - S&P 500 down by 2.1% because of emerging market "crisis" because of Fed taper and China slowdown. February 3 - S&P 500 down by 2.3% because of 'same as above', with concerns about Japan and the impact ...

October h(a)unting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014
... speculations that the Fed would raise rates sooner rather than later. But before the Fed goes for this, it must complete its QE taper first. That's happening this month. They'll take away a full US$15 bil instead of the US$10 bil they've been withdrawing ...

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

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2014
... plus at the start of this year... and the VIX index is up to a still-low 14.12 reading. Compare this to September 2013's taper tantrum when the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker were all convinced that Big Ben Bernanke (remember him?) will ...

FRBSF takes on Jackson Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
... markets not only make that "considerable time" before interest rates rise more considerable, it could even prompt a reverse taper. Like I like to say, the Fed is watching the markets watching the Fed watching the market. "...the public seems to expect ...

Heads up to where Wall Street's heading

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2014
... worst month of the year for US stocks. And then, there's October - the month of crashes and the month the Fed concludes taper. The S&P 500 index dropped by 16% three months after QE1 ended in March 2010 and by 16.8% three months after QE2 finished at ...

Janet's Jackson

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014
... potential" labour market indicators suggest that Janet would not be deviating much, if at all, from the steady as she goes on taper and interest rates would remain low for a "considerable time" script of days passed. Investors are hapeee! How happy? ...

Fear me not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
... geo-political... Financial markets continue to seesaw on this, just like they did with QE (I, II and III) on/QE (I, II and III) off and taper on/taper off and... shortly before the flaring up of geo-political tensions, Fed rate hike soon/Fed rate hike ...

Because I'm happy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
"Here come bad news talking this and that, yeah, Well, give me all you got, and don't hold it back, yeah,...because I'm happy (Happy)." -- Pharrell Williams, 'Happy' A nice complement to Chumbawamba's "I get knocked down but..." when talking about the ...

US bond market says not yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2014
... around the same magnitude this year: January 24 - S&P 500 down by 2.1% because of emerging market "crisis" because of Fed taper and China slowdown. February 3 - S&P 500 down by 2.3% because of 'same as above', with concerns about Japan and the impact ...