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Minute slip on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
... the lines and come up with a rant 10-15 minutes after it's been published - you'll say stuff it too. Simply stupid. Yes Virginia, for how can you reconcile these with the Fed's 29 October decision to go ahead and kill QE? And then, there's the bad news ...

One swallow says it's springtime for Germany

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014
One month's tick up in a single index is all it took for euro area financial markets to go loco. Yes Virginia, they've gone loco over reports that economic sentiment in the region's locomotive - Germany -- rebounded (big time) in November after falling ...

Shanghai-HK Connect connects China to the world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2014
... president Barrack Obama at the APEC summit or his handshake connect with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe? Ahh yes, Virginia, you know where I'm going with this don't you? It's the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect. We've been waiting for this since ...

Goodbye QE, hello QQE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
... expectations appear to be rising on the whole". Ergo... don't expect another stimulus anytime soon. Thank goodness you and I, Virginia, weren't tricked - we warned a repeat of the slowdown into recession when the consumption tax rate was raised from ...

QEnd is here

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2014
QE is dead! Long live QE! Well that went well, didn't it Virginia? The death of QE3 caused little stir in the financial markets - the S&P 500 index lost a teenie-weenie 0.1%; yields on 10-year US Treasuries increased by a small 0.02 percentage point ...

QEnd

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2014
"And now, the end is near; And so I face the final curtain." - My Way That, Virginia, is QE doing its rendition of Frankie ol' blue eyes Sinatra's ol' time classic. Barring a very nasty - just nasty won't cut it - surprise, the Fed will be announcing ...

Caterpillar economy turns into a butterfly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014
What a difference a week makes. Yes, yes, yo Virginia, in just seven winks, financial market sentiment went from "shiver me timbers, the sky is falling" to hapeee. Don't believe me? Here's Bloomberg's take last 15 October in its report headed, "World ...

US$200b a quarter to keep the bulls going

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014
"Having money isn't everything, not having it is." - Kanye West Nah Virginia, at my (middle) age, I'm not one who enjoys hip hop, techno, punk, goth or beats... let alone rap. But yankee-doodle-dandy rapper Kanye's words aptly describe the fall and ...

Chocolate biscuits and animal spirits

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
... but we're not done with October yet. While we're waiting let's talk about chocolate biscuits and animal spirits. Yes Virginia, the panel of experts at the CBA's annual Australasian Conference discussed chocolate biscuits and animal spirits a they try ...

Jawbone collection

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2014
... bankers came and (re)played it all again. "I get knocked down but I get up again, you're never going to keep me down". Nah Virginia, the world's biggest central banks didn't lift a finger, they merely used their collective jawbones to do the scaring ...