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September -- morn or mourn?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
... town that is the "when" of the Fed's lift-off. "The Odds of a September Rate Hike Have Surged in the Last Two Days" was Bloomberg's headline this morning, sub-headlined with "Likelihood of Fed September rate increase tops 50 percent" for emphasis. The ...

Indian economy accelerating/slowing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015
... trade and tax collection figures, which suggest the economy is still suffering from slack". An observation echoed by Bloomberg, "...exports have fallen for seven straight months, factory output's slowing and credit growth has failed to accelerate." At ...

Reading too much out of nothing at all

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2015
... rate hike by adding the word 'some' to their conditions required for further improvement in the labor market..." For Bloomberg, it was all about the dropping or adding of "modifiers". "The labour market continued to improve, with solid job gains and ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
... per cent, or 345.35 points, at 3,725.56. The decline was its biggest single-day drop since February 2007, according to Bloomberg News. Hong Kong fell 3.09 per cent, or 776.55 points, to 24,351.96, while Tokyo declined 0.95 per cent, or 194.43 points ...

It's not the when but the what happens after

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015
... middle with you... And I'm wondering what it is I should do" -- Stealers Wheel This was my immediate thought upon reading Bloomberg's piece that, "For two months the Standard & Poor's 500 Index has been stuck in a pattern of rising to the brink and then ...

Stirred but not shaken

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015
... should Germans bail out these people and they are not willing to accept at least a minor bailing out by themselves?" ( Bloomberg, 19 March 2013) Sounds familiar? We all know how that ended. It ended well and the markets were right to be "sanguine in ...

The fat lady in concert on Sunday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2015
... the month before. Some were stronger, some weaker, than expectations. What to make of these in terms of Fed lift-off? Bloomberg says, "Fed funds futures show there's a 29 per cent chance the central bank will increase its benchmark rate from near zero ...

Euro - another experiment doomed to fail?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
... January 2001 - the 12th EU country to do so. During one of several high jinxed episodes of the Greek crisis - in May 2011, Bloomberg quoted former ECB economist, Otmar Issing, saying that "Greece cheated to get in, and it's difficult to know how we should ...

The Fed is Greek too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2015
... could be ready for a first interest rate hike in September followed by a second increase in December." And this from Bloomberg, "The comments place Powell among five officials who see two increases this year, joining San Francisco Fed President John ...

Plus ca change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... billion granted by the ECB, Skai Television reported yesterday, without saying how it got the information." Then this by Bloomberg on the 12th of the same month: "The ECB's Governing Council held a phone conference Thursday to raise the allowance for ...