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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2014
... growth. LONDON - European shares shot up after the European Central Bank signalled it is ready to act quickly to deter deflation and China cut interest rates for the first time in more than two years. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index on Friday climbed ...

Quo vadis dollar-A?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
... "now dropped for three months in a row"); the Eurozone has stalled; China's getting no traction; and consumer price deflation still plagues Japan. There wasn't any update for the UK yet but I'm guessing it'll more or less mirror that of the US. What ...

Minute slip on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
... refer to some (thankfully, not most today) financial headlines that connected Wall Street's dip overnight to the Fed's deflation concerns. The bone - "Many participants observed the committee should remain attentive to evidence of a possible downward ...

Japan did it again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2014
... from Mr. & Mrs. Watanabe buying up truckloads of whatever before taxes increase...and then it's back to Japan's normal (deflation and weak consumption). The Japanese economy then went into recession in 1997/98 and the government debt the government wanted ...

Shanghai-HK Connect connects China to the world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2014
... price inflation remained at a five-year low 1.6% and the PPI declined by 2.2% -- month 32 of year-on-year producer price deflation. Perhaps China's now enjoying the bad news is good news syndrome like Wall Street had been. Or is it the connect between ...

Ruble trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2014
... the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is hoping for and the European Central Bank (ECB) wants to lessen the threat of deflation... but not Russia. For Russia, like its BRIC amigo - Brazil - faces stagflation. Growth in Russia's economy slowed to a mere ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014
... dropped as ECB chief Mario Draghi signalled the central bank was readying further stimulus measures if needed to combat deflation and stagnation within the eurozone. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index closed up 0.18 per cent to 6,551.15 points, while ...

Why the eurozone cannot afford cheap oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014
... eurozone growth contributes to lower world demand for crude, lowering its price. Lower oil prices raise the risk of deflation - prompting eurozone businesses and consumers to defer spending, lowering growth. Weaker growth... Perhaps, by publishing its ...

100% steady on the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2014
... Australian central bank to change policy settings. The US economy continues to strengthen, China's economy's still slowing, deflation and a triple-dip haunt the Eurozone and Japan's economy remains work-in-progress. Nothing much has changed for Australia's ...

Goodbye QE, hello QQE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
"You say stop and I say go go go, oh no You say goodbye and I say hello Hello hello" -- The Beatles Just as the Fed concluded QE3, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) served up the biggest trick or treat this Halloween by expanding its QQE. The trick. Not even ...