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IMF - It Means Fun

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
Here you go again, u-huh, scaring us again, u-huh. Can you feel it, can you feel it, can you feel it? Sure you can, it's all over the place - Chicken Little is going around crying "the sky is falling" (again). You can't miss it, not even if you close ...

Time to buy the bad news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2012
They just won't stop coming, do they? Yes them, the bad news. This time it came courtesy of the World Bank (WB). The WB went on a chopping spree - slashing its growth outlook for the Asia and the Pacific region to 7.2% this year and 7.6% in 2013 - down ...

Good jobs bad jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
Was it good? Or was it bad? I refer, of course, to that mother of all eco stats - the US non-farm payrolls report - the one that'll guide financial market activity, if not through the end of this year or longer, at least until next month. It was good. ...

Failure is not an option

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
It's been a month -- or thereabouts -- since the European Central Bank -- followed by the US Federal Reserve followed by the Bank of Japan -- gave financial markets what they wished, prayed and hoped for and fired the first salvo of quantitative easing. ...

Data deluge delivers no clearer visibility

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2012
'Twas raining data updates over the past 24 hours. Eco stats and surveys flooded cyberspace unrelentingly, one after the other, and yet near-term visibility remains almost... invisible. Take your pick Virginia. There are numbers to back up the "we're ...

Spanish fly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
Just when we thought we're done and over with playing the "would they, would they not" guessing came, another one comes along. We played the game last month. Those we bet on to do did. The European Central Bank announced Outright Monetary Transactions. ...

Green lights on green shoots

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2012
This isn't supposed to happen. Have you seen the headlines over the past 24 hours? There was bad news almost everywhere from Australian broadcaster Alan Jones chastised by the media (social or otherwise) to Britain's princess Kate snapped - bottomless ...

Spanish austerity and Chinese take-away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
Ole, ole, ole! Spain's request for bailout is in the mail. This is the message that prompted a turnaround in equity markets in America and Europe overnight following the Spanish government's announcement of its 2013 budget that aims to cut the deficit ...

The pain in Spain does not fall mainly on the plain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
Take one central banker's lack of faith at the recent action of the institution he serves, add rumours that a region threatens to secede from a country in a region that's desperately trying to stay as one, and what do we get? We get a problem Houston. ...

Pick your poison

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
What's wrong with this market? With so much liquidity being pumped into the system by three of the world's major central banks - the US Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan - markets appear unconvinced. Wall Street was down ...