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No December lift off? Small chance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2015
... until it didn't. Will this time be different? The VIX index says yes it will. It dropped by 10.6% to a reading of 16.85 overnight. Wall Street says yes it will. The S&P 500 index rallied 1.6% overnight and yield on 10-year US Treasuries increased only ...

December lift-off, yeah, sure

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2015
... October tete-a-tete. But what was surprising was Wall Street's reaction - the Dow and the S&P 500 index both climbed 1.2% overnight - to headlines upon headlines alluding to a December lift-off. Wall Street's positive reaction is confounding because ...

Hotel California

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2015
Ho ho ho and ha ha ha. The truth is out. Wall Street dipped overnight and so did the Euro Stoxx 50 - after their strong gains of the past week because, wait for it......because investors suddenly realised that the ECB and the PBOC's early Christmas ...

Lift-off off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
... the Fed would, if the Fed could. But expanding on his colleague's thoughts, NY Fed president William Dudley commented overnight that, "The recent economic news suggests the economy is slowing and we have these developments in China and emerging market ...

Big trouble in big China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2015
... trouble in big China and it'll come falling down our heads. Just have a look at the fear index - the VIX jumped to 17.67 overnight from 16.17 the day before. Markets are so scared they've forgotten the index's reading of 27.63 just over a forthnight ...

Inflation expectations says no

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2015
... a lift-off in October at 7% and December at 36% (yup, not even a coin flip). The US dollar's fall to three-week low overnight -- down 5.4% from its March peak - supports this. But with the financial markets getting some sort of stability over the past ...

Comparative advantage

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2015
... and financial market landscape and saw that it wasn't good. Yes folks, financial markets were doing backflips again overnight on concerns over dropping commodity prices on concerns over slowing China. Those concerns grew after Beijing's National Bureau ...

Fed will lift later this year if...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015
... "Inflation Dynamics and Monetary Policy" at the At the Philip Gamble Memorial Lecture, University of Massachusetts, overnight. Then again, Wall Street didn't miss much for aside from a refresher course on well, inflation dynamics and monetary policy ...

Super Mario returns fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
Shots fired! Shots fired! Yes Virginia, Super Mario returned overnight and shot down the euro, putting smiles on the faces of holders of Eurozone stocks - Stoxx 600 up 2.4% -- and bonds - 10-year yields fell across the region. The euro dropped to as ...

Lead us not into a recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... And thus, here we are willing the RBA to cut interest rates again - evidenced by the drop in the A$ to below US$0.70 overnight. The A$ has rebounded since and is currently flashing US$0.7043 on my Bloomberg screen. Is this a realisation that the currency ...