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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 ...

August angst to September mourn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015
... risk waters. Financial markets are again in upheaval and fear is once more on the rise - the VIX index spiked 10.5% overnight to a reading of 31.40. It's China that did it! Oh yes, Virginia, yesterday's official PMI result reminded all and sundry that ...

Asia: Between fortune and fate

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... foreign investors are less than 2%. This makes it a highly volatile exchange. However, even an 8% fall of the market overnight can provide opportunity for investors: "Domestic investors with access to foreign markets have sold what they can, so there's ...

Too much ado about a speck

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2015
It didn't happen overnight, but it happened... yesterday. That thing I mused about exactly five months ago -12 March 2015 - China devalued its currency. (http://www.financialstandard.com.au/news/view/48312386) "It is perhaps still too early for QE ...

Five minutes of commodity sunshine?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
... everything, and non-conventional policies. Take the case of China - which by the by started the equity shopping spree overnight. Beijing reported tumbling exports - down 8.3% in the year to July - indicating weak global demand and diving imports - down ...

Water, water everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
... BOE would not raise interest rates... just yet. The British currency's reaction confirmed this - it slipped by 0.6% overnight against both the US dollar and the euro. The interest rate outlook is also supported by the BOE's latest growth and inflation ...

Reading too much out of nothing at all

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2015
... 28-29 tete-a-tete. But what was surprising was Wall Street's reaction - the Dow and the S&P 500 index both climbed 0.7% overnight - to headlines upon headlines alluding to a September lift-off. Wall Street's positive reaction is confounding because this ...