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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2014
... pace despite worries that last month's sales tax rise will hit consumer spending. Policymakers also dropped the word "deflation" from their post-meeting statement - a possible signal that efforts to conquer years of falling prices could be paying off. ...

Growth and consequence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2014
With growth like this what's a central banker to do? It might have been too easy for the Fed to justify its steady taper as she goes despite the National Accounts showing that real GDP growth slowed to a snail dragging a very heavy object pace - 0.1% ...

Beggars at war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2014
... designed, aimed and targeted to get the yen's exchange value down against its frenemies to boost Japanese growth and turned deflation into low-flation and then 2% inflation. That's well and good. The world could do with another functioning growth engine. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2014
... on Thursday. HONG KONG - Asian stocks were mixed after weak Chinese inflation data raised concerns about the risk of deflation in the world's second-largest economy but also opened the door to possible stimulus measures from Beijing. Tokyo closed up ...

Insurers upping risk to combat low yields

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2014
... debt, for which they have the lowest near-term return expectations. More than 20% of the CIOs surveyed indicated that deflation is a risk in the next year, double the percentage for 2013. Inflation remains a medium term concern, with roughly 80% of CIOs ...

Bored to zzz

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... - which is on autopilot - it's about America's improving economy (maybe) or China's slowing one (maybe) or Europe's deflation risk or Japan going back to deflation (maybe and maybe). And oh... there's also Putin, of course. It's as boring as boring can ...

ECB to stay in May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014
... to 0.7% in the 12 months to April from the four year low of 0.5% in March. Odd news because it lessens the threat of deflation. Sort of, because one month's figure does not a trend make and, April's number marks the seventh straight month that euro area ...

May worry

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
... the Ukraine and more evidences of a slowing China - the fourth month of below manufacturing PMI reading in April - and deflation threat in Europe. Take our money and run away in May? A Reuters' article published way back in 2011 provides convincing argument. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... boost as the ECB pledged to further ease monetary conditions if necessary and hinted at quantitative easing to keep deflation at bay. However, stocks gave up much of their gains, with Frankfurt's DAX 30 ending the day up just 0.06 per cent at 9,628.82 ...

Better than good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
... time, but markets are left without a doubt that it would announce its own form of stimulation soon to ward off "bad" deflation threats. And it may get even better. Recent pronouncements by the US Federal Reserve (Fed) and the Bank of England (BOE) - ...