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Chill

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2015
... Although it could also apply, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) chief Glenn Stevens wasn't advising Russian President Vladimir Putin against having Turkey for Thanksgiving in retaliation for Turkey's - the country - downing of a Russian warplane near the ...

Extensions - What the Greeks await and the Russians hate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
... Russia until the end of January 2016 - they were due to expire at the end of this month - to allow them to gauge Vladimir Putin's compliance with last February's Minsk Protocol II - ceasefire agreement -A by the end of 2015. The BBC lists the key points ...

Santa's bargains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 DEC 2014
... is the US Federal Reserve's continued withdrawal of policy stimulation. The big dump of biotechs and social media stocks; Putin and Crimea and Ukraine (which by the by, made us worry about RISING oil prices); Israel/Palestine war, ISIS and QE end. Now ...

Ruble trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2014
... won't be any "shirt-fronting" happening in Beijing when Prime Minister Tony Abbott faces-off with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing this week. Tony doesn't have to, Russia's very own central bank have done it for him days before Vlad left for ...

US$200b a quarter to keep the bulls going

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014
... the fall were blamed - growth (the slowness of it), deflation (the threat of it), ebola (the spread of it), the IMF, ISIS, Putin, oil, earnings, technicals, etc, etc etc. And then they hit... hard -- the central banks' jawbones, that is, whispering mo' ...

QE forever and ever

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014
... markets, they tell us Victoria, have become fearful of "world growth" (the lack of it) and "world peace" (threatened by Putin and ISIS and Ebola and perhaps... the goings-on in Hong Kong - depending on China's response) which threatens "world growth". ...

Are we there yet?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2014
... low-flation (which discourages business and consumer spending) plus the geo-political troubles at the eurozone's doorstep - Putin tit-for-tat, Syria, Iraq, Ebola - plus tighter fiscal budgets equals, more weakness. We've also been warning - you and I ...

Now where have I heard that before?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014
... economy. April 10 - S&P 500 down by 2.1% because of the "momos" - momentum stocks - overvaluation and increased volatility and Putin. July 31 - S&P 500 down by 2.0% because of Argentina's debt default, Portugal's Banco Espiritu Santo, heightened geopolitical ...

Average September on average

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2014
... Friday. Was it because iPhone 6 Plus aren't going bendy bendy anymore and that it has fixed its app bug? Was it because Putin's no longer thinking of trading sanctions for seizure? The news that did it seems to be the upward revision in US second quarter ...

Someone mentioned the "S-word" on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014