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Debt, deficit, now deflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2013

RBA and Melbourne Cup two-fecta

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2013
Punters could enjoy a two-fecta today - the day when the Melbourne Cup meets with the RBA interest rate announcement - should the odds in their favour go. Odds-on are for the RBA to stay (on monetary policy) and Fioreno to win (the Cup). On the surface ...

China's party plans

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2013

Trick or treat?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2013
We're back on the taper-go-round saddle Virginia. Would the Fed allow the green shoots of a December taper to grow roots - and again permeate to every nook and cranny of economics and finance -- and then treat us with a taper not as it did in September? ...

Now for a taper in December

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2013

Prayin' for a taperin'

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2013

Savings trap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2013
The S&P 500 index closed on another record high. Ho-hum. It's been happening almost daily these days, it's no longer news...bo-ring. Reporting another inch up on the previous record high just doesn't cut it no more. How about "U.S. Stocks Rise, S&P ...

Taper trap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2013
"Don't fight the Fed!" I re-introduced this old saying on Wall Street at the end of last week to characterise the financial markets' behaviour du jour. The S&P 500 surely doesn't want to -- it closed at another fresh record high last week...and could ...

Rational exuberance?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013
Some years back I used to have discussions with several of my gentle readers (you know who you are, gentle folks) about whether or not QE would work, is working, or not. The passage of time since the Fed minted its first QE dollar had proven that it ...

Victim of success

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2013
Stronger, stronger, slowly getting stronger. Worldwide focus has been on the Fed and Washington over the past few months but that seems to have distracted some observers from seeing the positive developments across the Atlantic; though methinks Europe ...