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Carried away by the dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2014

The certainty in a sea of uncertainties

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2014

Janet's Jackson

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014
... pants after many things evil our way came - Argentina, Banco Espiritu Santo, Putin, Iraq, slow growth, fast growth, deflation, inflation, overvaluation, bubble - you name it. Yes Virginia, just two weeks ago investors were crying crisis, creating concerns ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014
... while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index fell 93.13 (2.09 per cent) to 4,369.77. Eurozone data revived concerns about deflation and adidas issued an earnings warning linked to the crisis in Ukraine. Other big drags included the Argentine debt default ...

Third arrow, broken arrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2014
... was the consequent drop in consumer spending and business investment sent the country into a recession and back into deflation. Today's economic dynamics - before and after the consumption tax was raised from 5% to 8% -- are playing out almost as they ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... Bank announced measures to bolster eurozone growth. The ECB has rolled out key changes to interest rates and other anti-deflation measures which lifted the euro, US Treasuries, and equities. This has helped give Australian equities a boost on Friday ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... Australian share market is set to open higher after the European Central Bank launched aggressive measures to prevent deflation and stimulate growth. The moves sent Wall Street to new record highs, while European markets got a temporary boost. At 0700 ...

Waiting for the ECB to exhale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... is. You, I and Irene only have to look Japan's experience to understand how insidious and debilitating to an economy deflation could be once it takes hold. Consumers defer purchases and businesses defer capital spending on expectations of even lower ...

Losing shine

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2014
... stimulus, engendering renewed trust in fiat money and easing inflation fears. The Bank of Japan is in the midst of turning deflation into inflation while the European Central Bank is about to take action to ensure low-flation doesn't turn into de-flation. ...

Help is on its way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2014
If three weeks (almost) ago European Central Bank (ECB) president Mario Draghi still gave himself a bit of wiggle room not to act (or defer action) - "after having seen the Staff projections that will come out in early June" - he did none of that when ...