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Chief economist update: Thanks for nothing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2018
... for. Three of Wall Street's benchmark equity indices are now in the red for the year - S&P 500 down 1.2% year-to-date; DJIA down 1%; Russell 2000 down 4.3%. The Nasdaq remains on the plus side, but only just - up 0.08% - and another down day could ...

Chief economist update: Fear and loathing on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2018
... as a 10% drop from the nearest peak) or on the cusp of one: Nasdaq (-11.5%) and Russell 2000 (-15.6%); S&P 500 (-9.4%) and DJIA (-8.4%). The sell-off has also turned the benchmarks' double or near double-digit returns for 2018 to losses (only the ...

Chief economist update: Wall Street has fallen, prepare to be greedy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2018
... These are all rational rationales explain the 3.3% drop in the S&P 500 index overnight, along with losses of: 3.2% on the DJIA; 4.1% for the Nasdaq composite; and 2.9% on the Russell 2000. Horror of horrors! For we all know that what happens on Wall ...

NAFTA's dead, welcome USMCA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2018
... sector. Trump beat his doubters, and his team can now turn to the No. 1 trade target: China." Wall Street also wins. The the DJIA closed 0.7% higher, the S&P 500 index gained 0.4% following the news, not least because it removed one source of uncertainty ...

Three down one to go, then another three in 2019

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2018
... that after December, the Fed is done. Woo-hoo! But the dot plots indicate this isn't so, sending the S&P 500 and the DJIA into reversed to end 0.3% and 0.4% down, respectively from their previous day's closing levels. The dot plots show that ...

Chief economist update: Fed flattens the yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2018
... US Federal Reserve missive, one would think that Wall Street is against strong(er) growth. All major benchmark indices - DJIA, S&P 500, Nasdaq and Russell 2000 - closed lower after the Fed announced the widely-anticipated 25 basis point hike in the fed ...

Gesundheit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 FEB 2018
... the world catches a cold." The heightened volatility in the week of 5-9 February 2018 took down the S&P 500 index and the DJIA by 5.2% each. Spooky perhaps, but still a decent outcome especially when the 2018 to date loss of 2.0% for the S&P 500 and ...

Chief economist update: Wall Street wails on inflation indications

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2018
... pressure on bond yields. These are perfectly rational rationales behind the previous week's big one-day fall on Wall Street - DJIA down 2.5%; S&P 500 down 2.0%; Nasdaq down 2%; Russell 2000 down 2.1%. But if the current ructions on Wall Street continues ...

The darling buds of inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2018
... and I say It's all right." -- The Beatles Wall Street again went on a record breaking run last week with the S&P 500, the DJIA, the Nasdaq Composite and the Russell 2000 all finishing at all-time highs... and for good reasons. Growth is going and inflation ...

Getting better and betterer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JAN 2018
... 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 all recorded only one down month for the entire year - a record in itself - and these, despite geopolitical ...