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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 ...

Let's talk about VIX baby

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2014
... when people only know the GFC as the Geelong Football Club and not the Global Financial Crisis; the time when you, I and Irene (and even governments and central banks) thought that the good going was going to continue going good. But it didn't. The VIX ...

Easy CBs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2014
... continue driving the unemployment rate down. And while the FOMC are already surveying exit options, fear not for you, I and Irene would be notified in advance. "Participants generally agreed that starting to consider the options for normalisation at ...

OMFG! Australia could lose an A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2014
We're in trouble now Virginia... you, I and Irene! That credit ratings agency - Standard & Poor's has waded in into the Federal Budget and put us, Australians all, on notice. Just read S&P's sovereign analyst Craig Michael's lips: "If it looked as though ...

Growth and consequence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2014
... running at this rate. But just as the experience of the 1 April 1997 lift in the consumption tax (from 3% to 5%), you, I and Irene and the BOJ know that there would be payback. Just how much is the 64 million dollar question but market expectations centre ...