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You're dreaming

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2009
... months. The point is that given optimism and the positive turn of economic indicators in the Australian economy, financial markets are now expecting the jobless rate to stabilise at current levels - well, maybe few points up or down. The Federal Government ...

Optimism may not be enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2009
... optimism and the billions of euros injected into the region's financial system to at least mitigate the recession, financial markets expect the recovery in the Eurozone to be fragile. This is because while improving economic data and rising optimism ...

Stuck at zero

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2009
... activity has picked up sufficiently to put upward pressure in these parameters. A Bloomberg survey shows that financial markets do not expect the US central bank to move interest rates until August next year. Perhaps... Perhaps by that time the US economy ...

Boiling frog

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2009
... economy alive? I refer, of course, to the story of the 'boiling frog' - often used as an anecdote to describe the financial markets' failure to respond to significant modifications in its environment if those changes occur ever so slightly. The 'boiling ...

Elusive 10K

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2009
... learned, this all ended in tears - bucketfuls of it - as the global financial crisis took its toll first on financial markets and then on entire economies. So what now? Given the current investment environment, stimulus measures and improving economic ...

Pleasant and nasty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2009
... credit - a reversal from the mid-week mood when JP Morgan and Intel results surprised - the pleasant kind -- financial markets. It was always going to be this way. Nobody could expect all 500 listed stocks in the S&P 500 to beat expectations - unless ...

Doom dollar

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2009
... concentration risk by world central banks has spilled over into the third and fourth quarters of this year. Whether financial markets like it or not, central banks cannot be faulted for acting the way they do. The law of supply and demand is set against ...

Our fearful trip is done

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2009
... economy. Bad for calculating value in the stock market. Hence, bad for the stock market. But what happened? Financial markets widely regarded the RBA's decision to increase the official cash rate from the 'emergency' level of 3.0 per cent to 3.25 per ...

Rejoice for rates have risen

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2009
... the doomsday scenario being flagged left, right and centre at the time of extreme pressure on economies and financial markets? Just look at the US. Trillions of dollars spent and it still struggles to get back on its feet. So much so that the Obama administration ...

Bears cursed by September curse

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2009
... a long way from the edge of the abyss of depression into one of improvement. Certainly, the forward view for financial markets and global growth remains debatable. Recent data flows continue to produce conflicting signals. This is no better exemplified ...