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Chief economist update: The crash we have to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
... orthodoxy since the Global Financial Crisis that central banks are the new masters of the universe. Grexit, the Jasmine Revolution, North Korea's missile launches, Brexit and Trump's trade war -- and other challenges in-between -- proved no match ...

Another October to remember?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2014
... history repeat? To be sure, the European sovereign debt crisis was upon us in 2010 and 2011. And in 2011, the Jasmine Revolution and Japan's earthquake/tsunami/nuclear meltdown incident compounded things. Then again, Wall Street indices were much lower ...

Losing shine

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2014
... transpired during the global financial crisis and the great recession, the European sovereign debt crisis, the Jasmine Revolution, the Japan earthquake/tsunami, the US fiscal cliff and downgrade of its rating below AAA. And oh... economic growth in the ...

Let's talk about VIX baby

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2014
... reading by May 2011 before jumping back up to a reading of 48 of the same year - on fears of euro disintegration; Jasmine Revolution and Japanese earthquake/tsunami/nuclear meltdown. The Fed's QE3 and the ECB's "whatever it takes" announced in September ...

Bottoms up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014
... five years - most notable of which are the European sovereign debt crisis, the prospect of currency wars, the Jasmine Revolution and the tsunami and nuclear meltdown in Japan, and more specifically for the US - Standard & Poor's downgrade of its credit ...

Can't help falling in love with stocks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
... crisis and euro collapse, China hard landing, double-dips, triple dips, 'new normal' (forever slow growth), Jasmine Revolution, Japanese earthquake/tsunami/nuclear meltdown, debt ceiling, fiscal cliff, sequestration, currency war, actual war (China and ...

Temper, temper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2013
... up 7.4% since the start of 2013. Remember how worried you, I and Irene were when the price soared during the Jasmine Revolution of 2011? Brent oil is now a few dollars away from the US$126.46 high it reached back then. And logically, too. Because dearer ...

2011: hits and misses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011
... global purchasing managers indices have picked up towards the close of 2010." Here, I was correct until... the Jasmine Revolution sent Middle Eastern and African dictators quivering and oil prices soaring. Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and ...

Seeing evil, hearing evil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... This was the prevailing thought only a few months ago - in January, February, March and April -- when the "Jasmine Revolution" in the Middle East and North Africa sent oil prices gushing up. This was the prevailing thought when natural calamities in ...

Bulls take first quarter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
... reverse the upward momentum in consumer prices. The same goes with other emerging markets. There will be a Jasmine Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa. While it will lead to the peaceful ousting of the presidents of Tunisia and Egypt, Libyan ...
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