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Chief economist update: Bond sell bomb shell

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2018
... from Bloomberg that China plans to either slow or halt its purchases of Treasuries for one reason behind his negative view." CNBC completes the rational for Gross' bearish bond stance: "Rising nominal U.S. GDP that will stoke inflation, reduced purchases ...

No big deal or not yet?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 NOV 2017
... November - the day when the Shanghai composite index fell by 2.3% and the blue chip CSI 300 index plunged by 3.0%. According to CNBC, this is because "Chinese firms have been under pressure since the government began tightening rules on lending. In particular ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2016
... people who believe the Bank of Japan is wary of expanding Japan's already excessive public debt; it is currently 230%of GDP. CNBC are quoting analysts from SMBC Nikko Securities who expect the package will push up real GDP growth by just 0.4% this year ...

Gold starts to glisten (like 2008?)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2016
... economic and financial backdrop shaping up to be a repeat of 2008. Early in the New Year George Soros made headlines with the CNBC headline: "Soros: It's the 2008 crisis all over again". This was followed not many weeks later by 'The Guardian's' "Fears ...

Super Mario dropkicks markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
... trillion your printing presses are printing. It'll certainly be less... for sure. Quoting Schroders' economist Azad Zangana, CNBC prints that "Zangana highlighted that the available stock of ABS was approximately 250 billion euros - whereas the available ...

Humanitarian you, humanitarian me too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2014
... a sudden... found religion. Well, not quite. It's all about reports of Russia de-escalating tensions in Ukraine. Hapeee! CNBC cites "Reuters, citing Russia's Interfax, reported that Russia had ended military exercises near the Ukrainian border" and soldiers ...

A 1987-style crash cometh (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2014
... just as he knew less than a year ago. On 8 August 2013, Marc predicted that... wait for it... A 1987-style crash is coming (CNBC) and that the S&P 500 would drop "maybe 20 percent, maybe more" by the end of the year. Because "Some of the tailwinds we've ...

The waiting game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2014
... again for the ECB to ease - as reflected by the weakening in the euro/US$ exchange rate. This gained momentum last week after CNBC reported that, "Germany's Bundesbank said the ECB could buy loans and other assets from banks to support the euro-zone ...

Catching the big wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2014
... following calls within the ruling Saenuri party to respond to the growing use of the Chinese currency". And before this, CNBC reported (on 17 February) that, "Australia's stock exchange operator ASX (ASX:ASX-AU) and Bank of China (Shanghai Stock Exchange ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2013
... to reduce its $US85 billion-a-month asset-purchase program. One of them, Richard Fisher, the head of the Dallas Fed, told CNBC that the Fed's balance sheet has become "bloated" and warned that "at some point, we will have to taper back on the pace of ...