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Extensions - What the Greeks await and the Russians hate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
... days. But this game has always been played like this for the few weeks... and five years. You must be kidding yourself Virginia if you thought that there'll be handshakes all around just on day one of the scheduled two-day EU leaders' "emergency summit" ...

Graccident averted (yet again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
Hoo-wow! Houston, we had lift-off. Yes Virginia, financial markets from New York to Rio and old London town lifted off while we slept. Equity markets jumped while bond yields dived. These, because on optimism that a Greco-troika deal would be hammered ...

Mi problema su problema

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
"I got chills, they're multiplying..." What's that Virginia? You're sick of hearing and reading about Greece? Not as I am about ranting about it for the umpteenth time, believe you me. Each time the Greek "crisis' re-emerges, we get this volatility ...

Grexit nears, markets cheer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
If it weren't serious dineros we're talking about, I would be laughing...seriously. Yes Virginia, Greece is still the word with newswire services reporting that the duelling parties have upped the ante and hardening their stances. Greek PM Tsipras accused ...

New kid on the block

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2015
... expectations, everybody's watching you... Everybody's talking 'bout the new kid in town." - Eagles Well, not quite yet Virginia but, if recent reports are confirmed there'll be a new kid in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index soon - as soon as tomorrow ...

Who's scared of Grexit or lift-off?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015
It's the Fed one day, Grexit the next. It's a deal! Yes Virginia, this morning's headlines were full of it -- stories that a deal had been struck between Athens and Brussels. Never mind the after-reports that European Commission Vice President Valdis ...

Australia sings hallelujah

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
... no intention of embarking on a pre-set course of increases in the federal funds rate after the initial increase". Yes Virginia, lift-off will be "at some point this year". With these words, Janet sent the US dollar higher and the Australian dancing down ...

Running on neutral

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
... positive 50.9 this month and China's contracted for a third month to 49.1 in May but above April's print of 48.9. Yes Virginia, it's the state of the planet as we knew it last week and last month. The PMI surveys -- considered good leading indicators ...

Lies, stats and damned double seasonal adjustments

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2015
... first-quarter growth fairly consistently, even though they are adjusted to try to account for seasonal patterns." Yes Virginia, that advance estimate of 0.2% annualised rate of GDP growth the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) reported the US economy ...

Damned lies and (actual) stats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
... consumer spending that lifts business profitability and investments, lifts wages and strengthen consumer spending. Yes Virginia, the BOJ is not engaging in a propaganda of untruths but in wishful thinking - hoping and wishing and praying that someday ...