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Chief economist update: Wall Street wails on inflation indications

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2018
... current economic cycle that the world's major central banks (the BOE excluded) have been wishin' and hopin' and thinkin' and prayin' for inflation to climb to their target rates. It appears that the Fed is first one in to get its wish. Only days after ...

The negatives in the positive jobs report

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 AUG 2017
If you've been hopin' and wishin' and prayin' that someday soon you'll be getting a fat pay rise, hope and wish and pray some more. While the headline seasonally adjusted numbers of the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) Labour Force report were ...

Going good but there are risks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 MAR 2017
The just-released "OECD Economic Surveys, Australia" provided a pretty growth picture of the domestic economy, forecasting GDP growth of 2.6% this year and 3.1% in 2018 - one that would lower the current jobless rate from 5.7% (January 2017) to 5.5% ...

Christmas in September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2016
... change in response to changes to the economic outlook and associated risks." I betcha, the BOJ is wishin' and hopin' and prayin' that the US outlook change for the better, giving the Fed the green light to lift (again). Else, the BOJ would need more ...

A negative sum game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2016
... then a 2016 low turned into a lower low a few weeks after as the chart below illustrates. Here's to hopin' and wishin' and prayin' that this upward momentum in the equity markets last longer than a week as the wealth effect that this engenders would ...

Better than the big boys

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2015
... when the National Accounts were released, I can't help but agree. No worries, those "clowns" still wishin' and hopin' and prayin' for a recession will one day, someday, have their day - a self-fulfilling prophecy if you will. But continued improvement ...

Damned lies and (actual) stats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
"If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself." -Paul Joseph Goebbels It may not be as sinister as what Adolf Hitler's propaganda minister intended it to be but the Bank of Japan (BOJ) continues ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2015
The share market has fallen after the release of weak manufacturing data from the world's second largest economy. Factory activity in China contracted at its fastest rate in a year in April, according to a regular survey by HSBC. The release of the ...

Oil price shock, nice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2015
I thought that in my lifetime I would never see someone out there in this galaxy wishin' and hopin' and prayin' higher oil prices to be. (Apart from those extracting, producing, investing in and lending to oil companies and nations, that is). And oh ...

Rejoice for the A$ has fallen

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2014
"...I see your true colors Shining through." - Cyndi Lauper Has the A$ just revealed its true colour? It's a Democrat and an Obama groupie! The Australian dollar "plummeted" "nosedived" "plunged" "tumbled" "was smoked" following reports that the Republicans ...