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Tony, SBY and Janet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2013
... Minister but Prime Minister no longer. Heck, he's just resigned from government altogether last week. Perfect! But you, I and Irene won't make or lose money speculating on this neighbourly spat. So what else is news? There's the OECD releasing its latest ...

CB onslaught

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2013
... Chances are the minutes would only be a very long version of the statements released at the meeting. Excitement. You, I and Irene might be able to pick up some clues as to what the CB's are really thinking by digging into the nuances of every word typed ...

QE according to Yellen

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2013
... My Soul It's looking a lot like a happy Thanksgiving and a very merry Christmas, don't you think so Virginia? You, I and Irene have US Federal Reserve vice-chairman Janet Yellen to thank for these. The Dow and the S&P 500 indexes may have only advanced ...

Feds speak Fedspeak yet again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2013

It's the twit not the taper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2013

Now for a taper in December

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2013

Savings trap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2013
... to widen to A$30.1 billion this fiscal year from A$18.8 billion in FY 2012. And this could be the reason why you, I and Irene are saving as much as we could. The quest for that elusive surplus would bring about -- to oversimplify -- higher and broader ...

QE infinity anybody?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013
... dropping to 6.5% but provided that this fall is not due to declines in the participation rate. Perhaps, if you and I and Irene focused on this, we would not be surprised a tiny bit that the Fed did what it did last month...not taper. If you look at the ...

Unthinkable

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2013
... payments halt 5. Banking operations freeze up 6. Money market funds break 7. Global markets walloped Then again, you, I and Irene know what the financial press is like - they sensationalise the unthinkable. Recall "the end of the world as we know it" ...

Washington watching Wall Street watch Washington

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 OCT 2013