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Patience, my dear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2015
... Reserve's true message after it announces its monetary policy decision on 18 March will take centre stage this week. Yes Virginia, here we go again. We go guessing the "will she, won't she" of Janet's patience again - that is, would US Federal Reserve ...

You sexy thing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
... surged three months before Standard & Poor's took away one-A from the US of A's AAA credit rating in August 2011. Yes Virginia, the US dollar has come a long way since, baby. "Everybody wants her, everybody loves her" -- everybody wants to take that ...

The die is cast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2015
... 0.26%. They've fallen all of 27 bps this year to date and are most likely to fall some more. Even to negative. Oh yes, Virginia. Because the ECB said so in the details of its QE programme - that it "will purchase debt with negative yields, so long as ...

LMCI's portrait of labour market conditions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
... the previous month and expectations for a 5.6% print. It's so lookin' good for the economy of the good ol' US of A, 'ey Virginia? So good, that it's all so bad. "Baby, baby, baby nooo". This, at least, was the message conveyed by Wall Street's performance ...

My QE, your problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015
And it's off and... running. Whoops, sorry Virginia, I've gotten ahead of myself. It won't be hitting Europe's pavements till Monday, 9 March 2015 - the first instalment of the ECB's QE worth a,-60 billion, and a,-60 billion monthly hereafter until ...

Tme to get fiscal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2015
... vindicated the "crisis" duo of Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and his cigar-smoking Treasurer Joe Hockey. Yes, Virginia. They've been telling us since they were still opposing Rudd then Gillard then Rudd how woeful Australia's economy has become ...

A little tweet told me

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2015
"Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception." -Sophocles Breakfast wasn't nice for me yesterday. Nah, Virginia, it wasn't because the toast was burnt or the bacon and eggs semi-cooked. It's because I was eating my own words with my foot in my ...

Breathing space or gasping room?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2015
... from 1.61%; Italy's down to 1.55% from 1.86%. And Greece? They're up to 9.72% from 9.42%. Yes you know what this means Virginia, Greece has no "contagion" to bargain with this time, unlike his predecessor, Antonis Samaras, and so comply he grudgingly ...

BOJ optimistic as forever

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2015
... year-on-year rate of increase in the CPI is likely to slow for the time being, reflecting the decline in energy prices." Yes, Virginia, she's gonna be right... until she doesn't. This is because this was the same optimistic outlook it printed in January ...

WTF moment on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2015
... periods, according to analysts' forecasts compiled by Bloomberg" (Bloomberg report under same Bloomberg headline). Alright Virginia, I admit it wasn't only that song but the words 'what the F' also screamed in my head. For if there is one thing that ...