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On austerity, growth and expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 APR 2013
What grows when it's stimulated? No Stuart, I'm not thinking what you're thinking. According to Economics 101, economies tend to grow given enough stimulation. Forget Reinhart and Rogoff - last Friday they just did a Dijsselbloem (remember him? he ...

It's the headlines, you twit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013
"BREAKING NEWS: President@BarackObama assassinated, 2 gunshot wounds have proved too much. It's a sad 4th for #america. #obamadead RIP." Were it not for this Twitter post - later discovered to be caused by Associated Press' twitter feed being hacked ...

Template of a bail-in?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2013
You gotta give it to the Europeans, they sure know how to shoot themselves in the foot. Financial markets celebrated after reports that a deal had been struck between the government of Cyprus and its benefactors. Nobody gave two hoots whether it's a ...

UK AIC launches investor-friendly website

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2013
... text, graphics and videos. There is also an area of the site for financial advisers which includes the AIC's training programme, information on platforms that offer investment companies and other material designed to help them build portfolios for their ...

The Celtic Tiger gets back its roar

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2013
... 5.7% in Greece and you'll see why 'The Celtic Tiger' has also been tagged as the "poster child" of Europe's austerity programme. Even better, the fall in Dublin's borrowing costs should enable the Irish economy to continue growing and lower its deficit ...

More than five minutes this time?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013
... because of 'Abenomics' and expectations that the BOJ would bring forward its pledge for 'open-ended' asset purchase programme from start of 2014 to as early as next month when the more aggressive Haruhiko Kuroda replaces 'big stimulus' hawk Masaaki Shirakawa ...

China's turn to provide buy opportunities

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2013
... whatever we can do," to end deflation and revive the Japanese economy. Markets now expect that "open-ended" asset purchase programme promised to start next year to be moved forward to as early as the BOJ's next meeting in April when Kuroda takes over ...

Bernanke pours liquid over Roman burn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013
The title just about describes the events of last night and the one before. Woe to Europe that's feeling antsy pantsy over Italy's result - or should I say, non-result - and the extrapolation of this into "skyfall" (Finally, I got the chance to use ...

Today we wait

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2013

Repressed rally

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2013
... tomorrow. Expectations are that it will formally adopt an inflation target of 2.0% and implement an open-ended asset-buying programme (and why not it seems to be working for the Fed and the ECB). These will be complimented by a massive fiscal spending ...