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ECB QE go riding on Fed QE stop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014
... mind that German GDP contracted by 0.2% in the second quarter, suggest that a triple dip recession... and by extension, deflation, is a real and present danger. This is where the success or non-success of the Fed's taper becomes important for the ECB. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2014
... clashed over loosing the EU's fiscal corset to provide more stimulus as growth stalls as the region flirts with dangerous deflation. The first confirmed Ebola case in New York City also unnerved investors. The euro climbed to $US1.2673 from $US1.2647 ...

Caterpillar economy turns into a butterfly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014
... inflation unexpectedly plunged to its lowest in five years. Prices in Israel and Sweden are even falling in an indication of deflation." That was the day the S&P 500 dropped by around 3% intra-day, 10-year US bond yields fell below 2.0% intraday and ...

Global deflation - the next worry?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2014
... trimmed measure - has slowed from 2.8% in the June quarter to 2.5% in September. Could it be? Could it be that global deflation would be the next one on our list of worries? Certainly looks like it with excess capacity running in many developed economies... ...

US$200b a quarter to keep the bulls going

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014
... red ink. Almost anything and everything that could be blamed for the fall were blamed - growth (the slowness of it), deflation (the threat of it), ebola (the spread of it), the IMF, ISIS, Putin, oil, earnings, technicals, etc, etc etc. And then they ...

Volatile like its 2011

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
Talk about being careful... for they might come true. 'Twas not so long ago that Janet Yellen, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (FRBSF) and the IMF worried about complacency in the financial markets as indicated by low, down on the ground ...

October h(a)unting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014
... SARS, bird flu and swine flu not so long ago?). There's the world economy - China's slowing, Japan's re-slowing and deflation continues to threaten the Eurozone. There's overvaluation, there's deteriorating market technicals. There's the sharply ascending ...

Market Wrap AM

MARKET WRAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014
... September, the lowest for nearly five years, signalling that the ECB may have to go even further to avert the threat of deflation. But London's benchmark FTSE 100 index fell 0.36 per cent to 6,622.72 points. The euro slumped to $US1.2571, the lowest ...

Liberalise economy or prepare for war, warns economist

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2014
... build infrastructure. He said printing money and lowering interest rates only creates 5% inflation to combat the 5% deflation caused by the depression. He said this cancelling-out effect was inherently unstable, and compared it to the San Andreas Fault ...

Super Mario to the rescue (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
... annual rate of CPI inflation currently at 0.3% (the slowest since September 2009) -- threatening to turn into outright deflation, financial markets are just as happy that the European Central Bank (ECB) is doing something, anything, to counteract/reverse ...