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Fed gets green light

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2017
US data releases dumped on our screens overnight, combined with easing US/North Korean tensions, provide another green light for the Fed to proceed with policy normalisation. Balance sheet unwinding and another rate hike before 2017 turns into 2018 ...

Good goings-on in China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUL 2017
Were it not for North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's "package of gifts" delivered on America's 4th of July Independence Day celebrations, the goings-on in China would remain buried on page 6 of the financial media. This could be because when it comes to ...

Australian end of financial year sale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017
... from 10.03 the previous day but still way lower than this year's high of 15.96 recorded in April - the time of US-North Korean tensions.

O Canada

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2017
... been allayed by his statement, "Why would I call China a currency manipulator when they are working with us on the North Korean problem?" after his cordial meeting with Chinese president Xi Jinping at Mar-a-Lago earlier this month. The world is back ...

The president is a Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2016
... ones are just talk and which ones are bona fide promises? With Trump, we don't know for sure. It's easier to read North Korean supreme leader Kim Jung-on's intentions - world domination - than it is to get inside Donald's head. The unknown causes fear ...

China's January effect

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2016
... last June); there's renewed geo-political turmoil in the form of the Saudi-Iranian diplomatic row and reports of North Korean H-bomb testing; continued declines in the price of crude oil and most other commodities; and, anxiety over the trajectory of ...

This means war (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014
... time) was also dead wrong! What got me jumping were reports that, "Kim 'Duke Nukem' Jong Un has reportedly given his North Korean army the go ahead to nuke the United States." According to the General Staff of the Korean People's Army, "The merciless ...

Kim playing Duke Nukem is the bigger worry

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2013
... Economics which now expects growth to come in at 3.0% from 2.0%...I'll be more worried about America getting nuked by a North Korean who's got his hands on nuclear playthings. Kim 'Duke Nukem' Jong Un has reportedly given his North Korean army the go ...

Australian instos exposed to AML risks

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
... investors realise to indirectly do business with their related entities such as banks or cloaked sub-branches. Cuban and North Korean entities pose similar risks. Balani explained that the US polices such breaches very aggressively and if an institutional ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAY 2010
... was triggered in part by the Bank of Spain's take over of a small savings bank, and exacerbated by a report that North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has ordered his military to a combat footing. The Nikkei 225 index ended down 298.51 points, or 3.06 per ...