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The recesssion we longed to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015
There was weeping and gnashing of teeth following the release of the latest Australian capex data for it was bad. It's bad, it's bad that we get to see the "R" word back in print. "Capex: Business investment plans at 'recessionary' levels" (abc.net) ...

'Brexit' betting booths now taking bets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2015
Call it what you will -- 'patient panic' or 'patient party' - the fact is all and sundry dropped what they were doing to hear (or not hear), read (or not read) the word 'patient' from the Fed. It's there no more... with "not impatient" taking over its ...

That other surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2015
... growth would re-accelerate from the 5.3% posted in the third quarter - after weakening from the 5.7% rate in the June quarter - going forward. In its latest World Economic Prospects report, the World Bank has bumped up Indian GDP growth to 6.4% and 7.0% ...

Australia's confidence recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2014
It's official... Australia is in an income recession. Happy now, Jan? It may not be the generally-accepted definition of recession -- two consecutive quarters of contraction in output growth - but it'll do as long as we get the "R" word tag in the economy ...

SMSFs up weighting to international shares

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014
Self-managed super fund (SMSF) trustees have upped their international equity exposures as low interest rates continue to weigh on cash returns, according to the latest Multiport SMSF Investment Patterns Survey. In the June quarter 2014, cash holdings ...

ECB QE go riding on Fed QE stop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014
... of 1.0% in 2014 and 1.25% in 2015 and 1.50% in 2016. These compare with reported GDP growth of a mere 0.8% in the June quarter - down from 1.0% in the first one - and inflation of 0.3% in September - down from 0.4% in August. Recently released disappointing ...

Global deflation - the next worry?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2014
The details are still sketchy as I type but the shootings at Canada's Parliament in Ottawa may just have been the reason dip-buyers were waiting for to cash in the gains they bought during the previous week's bigger than usual dips. Not because of oil ...

LMCI: a new indicator is born

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2014
... an average of 5.0 in the December quarter to 3.6 in the March quarter before jumping to a reading of 6.2 in the June quarter - confirming the slowdown due to the polar vortex and the ensuing payback. With September's figure completing the third quarter ...

Average September on average

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2014
Have dip... will buy. That's last week's story on Wall Street - the big dip on Thursday followed by a rebound the next day - and only because I got tired (as you too probably have) of hearing of what's developing to be Wall Street's 2014 anthem - Chumbawamba's ...

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
Yesterday we found out that financial markets' worry about the Fed was too much ado about "considerable time". Any moment now, we'll get to know how the land of "Braveheart" and scotch on the rocks - Scotland - voted with regards to their divorce with ...