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Sliding oil price would stop the slide in the oil price

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
... anybody's guess. All things being equal and remaining as they are - i.e. US oil shale supply continues to increase and world growth continues to growl - it's easy to extrapolate further slide in crude oil prices. But all things hardly remain equal and ...

Jawbone collection

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2014
... banks didn't lift a finger, they merely used their collective jawbones to do the scaring away of the spooks over world growth, world peace, world health and financial market volatility. St. Louis Fed president James Bullard started the liftoff with his ...

QE forever and ever

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014
... like the one we're getting now. This is because financial 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 ...

Seesaw on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
... another entry point. But the rationale is really two sides of the same coin. The IMF's downgrade of its guesstimate for world growth this year and the next - the one that caused Wall Street's see - is the same one that produced Wall Street's saw while ...

Fund managers expect clients to turn aggressive

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014
... managers were more optimistic about the prospects for equity returns in most markets, while remaining concerned about world growth and medium-term government bonds. During the next five years, the majority of managers expect the world's largest economies ...

Tony, SBY and Janet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2013
... spat. So what else is news? There's the OECD releasing its latest global growth outlook. It cut its forecasts for world growth to 2.7% in 2013 (from 3.1% it predicted six months before) and to 3.6% (from 4.0%) in 2014. Like I said, so what else is new? ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2013
... in Boston have triggered a flight to quality," said RIA Capital Markets analyst Nick Stamenkovic. The IMF cut its world growth forecast for 2013 on Tuesday as the eurozone recession continued to drag, but predicted growth overall would pick up in the ...

Can't help falling in love with stocks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
... tell what people might do when pushed to the wall. And mind you, we haven't seen a significant improvement in the world growth outlook as yet. There's also the not so small case of not only the Fed, but many other central banks in the world, unwinding ...

Good, better, best

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
... surveys released over the past 24 hours. Never mind reports of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) lowering its world growth forecast anew - down to 3.5% from 3.6% it predicted in October -- like most guesses, it could be correct or it could be not. ...

IMF - It Means Fun

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
... advanced economies to slow but not stop..." It didn't stop alright and the global economy contracted. Actual result -- world growth slipped by 0.6% in the year to the fourth quarter of 2008. And the S&P 500 dropped like a dead body at the end of 2008 ...