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The fat lady in concert on Sunday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2015
... two days ago. Needless to say, expectations will change again at the drop of another fresher stat. This reminds me of RBA Gov Glenn's comments after his speech at the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum in London only last Tuesday. "Countless ...

Dear mom, all's good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2015
... April from 0.2% in March - and average weekly hours worked was unchanged at 34.5 hours. Good news for us, Australians all. RBA Gov Glenn must thanking his mom that this month's Board meeting is followed by the publication of the quarterly Statement on ...

RBA cuts as expected, A$ does the unexpected

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... and most important, inflation is low and is expected to remain low for some time." If Evans' view prevails at the FOMC, RBA Gov Glenn may have longer to wait, or... just cut rates some more.

A$ at 80c

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015
... for the next gentle nudge and the next. But the longer Fed Chair Janet remains "not impatient" the greater our very own RBA Gov Glenn's headache. Speculations of a later-rather-than-sooner and (or because of?) indications of slowing momentum in the US ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher after US stocks rose sharply on the latest Chinese stimulus measures and some prominent earnings that bested forecasts. At 0645 AEST on Tuesday, the June share price index futures contract was up 37 points ...

What might trigger a sell-off?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
Impressive! Nah Virginia, I refer not to the big bouncy bouncy Wall Street and European equity markets did last night - which almost instantaneously affirmed the rant I scribbled on this space yesterday that "the bad and the bad and the bad" that spooked ...

Strike three

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
It's a hat trick. It's three for three. Three times that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) wrong-footed market expectations. Governor Glenn Stevens cut interest rates by 25 basis points to a record low 2.25% back in February when markets expected ...

Another cut's in the mail?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2015
... of 5,936.3 points at the end of last week's trade. A go-slow Fed would reduce the risk of derailing the US recovery. As RBA Gov Glenn remarked in his speech before the American Chamber of Commerce in Australia last Friday, "...a healthy US economy should ...

Happy Australian dollar Day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2015
... that goes, "in a world of fools the wise man is the fool," or something like that. Perhaps, the CBA's correct. That, as RBA Gov Glenn's namesake, Cat Stevens sings, "it's not time to make a change, just relax, take it easy". For one the BOC's surprise ...

Australia according to Gov Glenn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
Thank you Australian Financial Review (AFR) and RBA Governor Glenn Stevens for your early Christmas present - the gift of sharing. In what has now become a "tradition," we learned from the AFR Gov Glenn's thoughts on: The international economy: "The ...