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Chief economist update: The money is one Fed rate hike next year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2018
The tug-o-war between the bulls and the bears continues on Wall Street as 2018 draws to a close. Whether this state of affairs - or better yet, resolved one way of another (up or down) - depends primarily on the end game of the on-going trade stoush ...

Chief economist update: Forget asking for a pay rise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2018
... the Australian labour market for April provide something to crow about for the optimists and the pessimists alike. As the bulls would have it (that includes the Coalition government no doubt), total employment grew by 22,600 in the month of April - much ...

Getting better and betterer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JAN 2018
There's certainly no denying that the bulls ruled Wall Street over the course of 2017 with its record breaking feat splattered all over the financial headlines one day after another. Less focused on was the fact that the S&P 500, the DJIA and the Nasdaq ...

RBA joins the bulls in central bank shop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2017
As expected, and following the lead from the three big central banks - BOJ, Fed, BOE - that met last week, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept the official cash rate unchanged at 1.5% while at the same time offering a positive outlook on the global ...

Property not the answer for passive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 6 JAN 2017
... yet supply is increasing rapidly further into oversupply. These two conditions simply cannot coexist for long. As iron ore bulls learned a few years ago, record forthcoming supply is the death knell to record prices." Montgomery also points to the healthcare ...

Time to fear the no "fear gauge"?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2016
... it, speculation of Fed rate hike coming soon). Depending on which side of the fence you sit, it's either good or bad. The bulls will argue that low volatility reflects confidence in the US economy's growth momentum and/or that the Fed's telegraphed interest ...

All right

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
... not wrong too if you think it's not strong enough for the Fed to pull the trigger in September. There's something for the bulls and the bears and the birds and the bees and the moon up above in the July US employment update to confirm their respective ...

Market set to fall

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
... missed expectations. Deutsche Bank said the market's reaction to Apple's results showed "it's getting harder to beat the bulls." Microsoft reported a loss of $US3.19 billion due to a hefty writedown on the smartphone business it acquired from Nokia and ...

New kid on the block

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2015
... until... popped went the weasel). China's in a bull market because it's state sanctioned. The Politburo wants to run with the bulls. Here's Bloomberg again, "Zhou Xiaochuan, who heads the People's Bank of China and has cut interest rates twice since ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
... falls for the market. "Every time it appears as though the bears are about to drag the market lower, the bargain-hunting bulls - who must firmly believe the RBA will cut rates again - are there to bid the market back up," Australian Stock Report head ...