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Australia on top

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2016
... direction of the exchange rate" back in March this year. May's disappointing US employment numbers may have just given Uncle Sam another bullet to hit the RBA - or Donald Trump? - with... maybe. Whether our good uncle does or doesn't is beside the point ...

Hotel California

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2015
... commodity prices that would lower growth in commodity producing countries and emerging markets that would return to bite Uncle Sam's behind. The problem is a dovish statement from the Fed could weaken the US dollar - i.e. strengthen the euro and the ...

Lift-off off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
... countries, making US dollar denominated debt more expensive particularly for emerging economies and coming back to bite Uncle Sam's behind in the form of lower corporate profits both through reduced competitiveness and currency translation effects. Lower ...

NIRP before lift-off?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2015
... that the ills we were seeing at the time were due lift-off speculations and that this would all come back to gnaw at Uncle Sam's behind. "It's only been less than a year when the Fed ended QE (October 2014), are we now witnessing its nasty lagged effects?" ...

Not happy Jan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
... commodity prices even more, slowing the global economy and pressure on inflation. All these threaten to come back and bite Uncle Sam in the behind. What's Janet gonna do then? She'll have no choice but to return to the beginning - that is, reverse the ...

The horse still refuses to drink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015
... for why not. Except of course, bringing back volatility in the financial markets that could, in turn, return to bite Uncle Sam's behind. And oh, inflation's still below the Fed's target anyways. Then again, with the economy growing above trend, upward ...

It's the Fed, stupid

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... nasties for emerging market economies, commodity prices and now the stock markets -- nasties that would come back to bite Uncle Sam's bottom. No prizes for guessing, that guesses for a Fed lift-off had been pushed back. The most recent tally puts the ...

BOJ in (tactical) retreat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2015
... the goose that's starting to lay the golden egg? My sense is that the BOJ does not want to push the issue further lest Uncle Sam brings out the big guns and brand it a currency manipulator. The BOJ has done this before. It verbally intervened - warning ...

All roads leading to China's "one road"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2015
... trade and investment are to be smoothed out." China's building it and I'm pretty sure they'll come... even perhaps, Uncle Sam.

It might just be a matter of time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015
... still counting - other world central banks as they try to export their weak economic and deflationary conditions to Uncle Sam. Well, Bob's your uncle... it's working, underscored by theaccelerating decline in US import prices. They got chills, they're ...