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Economics 101 is dead

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 JUL 2017
... that was reinforced only last week by the release of the US non-farm payrolls report. The latest report showed the US economy added 222,000 jobs in June - much more than the expected 170,000 gain - and revisions to the prior two months saw an additional ...

Eurozone gaining momentum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2017
... implementing a balance sheet normalisation program this year." No surprises here given the improving macro dynamics in the US economy. No surprises too that financial markets are speculating that the European Central Bank (ECB) would follow suit...and ...

Good to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 MAY 2017
... they've risen even more following the recent upward revision to US GDP growth. The second estimate of US GDP showed the US economy grew at an annualised rate of 1.2% in the first quarter, much higher than the 0.7% expansion initially estimated and better ...

Of war, rate hikes and balance sheets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2017
... should the economy encounter "significant adverse shocks". Recent economic data and surveys show that, for now, the US economy is progressing smoothly and that it could stand more rate hikes or tapering/stopping of reinvestment or both. This despite ...

Too much ado about Fed reinvesting nothing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 APR 2017
... North Korea - and doubts over Trump-flation. This came as no surprise for Wall Streeters saw the latest updates on the US economy... and they were good. While both the Markit and ISM surveys of the US non-manufacturing sector came in lower than market ...

Global healing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAR 2017
... can discuss the why's and why not's for each and every Trump-promised policy's approval but the fact remains that the US economy have been improving sans the promised fiscal stimulus, sans the restructuring, sans the tax cuts, being implemented. It's ...

Obamacare one, Trump nil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 MAR 2017
... negotiate a deal to repeal Obamacare. While it's a slap on the face for the US president, it shouldn't matter much for the US economy or for the markets - both have been improving over the oh so many years that Obamacare had been in existence. The problem ...

No other way but up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 MAR 2017
... incoming data". The optimism sparked by Trump's reflationary policies and generally better global growth suggest that the US economy would see continued upward momentum and hence further Fed rate hikes. But continued growth and higher interest rates ...

Trump matters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2017
... ignore the man, we cannot. Not while he runs the biggest economy with the biggest capital market in the world. The US economy account for 25% of the world economy (US$18.6 trillion of US$75.2 trillion); the US equity market 38% (US$26 trillion of US$69 ...

One week delivery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2017
... immediate implication would be reflation - growth will inflate and so will consumer prices. More so, given that the US economy is nearing or now at full employment. This means that the three interest rate hikes expected from the Fed this year could become ...