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Lead us not into a recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... don't want to invest and consumers don't want to consume - the government must spend, spend and spend some more. Yes Virginia, Australia is worried about the deficit rising to levels many of our peers are struggling to get down to. So as we compare apples ...

August angst to September mourn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015
... is once more on the rise - the VIX index spiked 10.5% overnight to a reading of 31.40. It's China that did it! Oh yes, Virginia, yesterday's official PMI result reminded all and sundry that all is not well in the world's second biggest economy. Be afraid ...

The horse still refuses to drink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015
... left and gone... and once more, the sun shines and the sky's blue. This means that the Fed can go ahead and lift, right Virginia? More so after last night's re-calibration revealing that the US economy grew not 2.3% but a solid 3.7% in the second quarter ...

A$ falls to the occasion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
... all let us rejoice... for that recession we've long been longing to have might be just around the next bend. By now, Virginia, you would have read all about "Bloody Monday" - when "ASX loses $60 billion in worst day since the GFC" (9news.com.au) or "More ...

Gloom and doom news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... Seng - or highly volatile - Shanghai Composite - or down big time last week - Nikkei-225, Kospi, S&P/TSX composite. Yes Virginia, the bears came out of hibernation in full force. There was no place to hide, everywhere you look, there's gloom and... there's ...

Should the Fed re-launch QE?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015
... the Fed would start raising interest rates but whether the Fed should re-launch QE. Let's take a trip back to 29 July, Virginia - the day the Fed released its policy statement at the conclusion of its 28-29 July FOMC meeting - it was sliced, diced and ...

Empire State bombs out

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2015
... then you can forget a lift-off in September, or in December... perhaps, forget all about it for all of next year. Yes Virginia, I refer to the drop in the Empire State Manufacturing Index. And girl, was it a surprisingly big thud. The index plunged to ...

All right

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
... far above the 8.8% average in 2004-2007 and is just on par with the highest rate recorded after the 2001 recession. Yes Virginia, the 10.4% was the US labour market's source of anguish in the early 2000's, now it is cause for celebration. The rate for ...

September -- morn or mourn?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
... hear what they want to hear and think what they want to think." This saying was on full display over the past 24 hours, Virginia... just look at the headlines. Yes, of course, I'm scribbling about the talk of the town that is the "when" of the Fed's ...

Make it December (for now)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
Scratch September. Make that December. That's the Fed lift-off Virginia. And just so you and I don't miss that point, the Australian Financial Review (AFR) even quoted Douglas Borthwick -- head of foreign exchange Chapdelaine & Co - saying that, "I'm ...