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Reading too much out of nothing at all

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2015
... signals out of all the static around, even when the central bank has no new signal to send, and static is all there is." Yes folks, their just static. The Fed's first move remains data dependent. They said so themselves... in black and white and bits ...

G20, FTA and Vlad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2014
... third quarter National Accounts are released today). And what about the G20 summit in St. Petersburg in September 2013? Yes folks, that was in Russia (when it was G20 president) where Russia committed, among others, "to improving the business environment..." ...

Calendrically weak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2014
... self-sustaining. What's not making news is that Wall Street might just be performing based on its calendar averages. Yes folks, it must only be because it's September - the month of the year which, according to 'The Stock Trader's Almanac', is when the ...

Easy money to fill in the slack at the Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
... Bank of Japan governor Haruhiko Kuroda talked about his country's problem with an ageing and declining labour force. Yes folks, problems, problems, problems everywhere on the labour market front - or is it excuses, excuses, excuses everywhere to keep ...

Chumbawamba rules

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
Ho-hum. It's now so predictable that it's become so triple ho-hum boring. Yes folks, "Chumbawamba" still rules on Wall Street - it gets knocked down but it gets up again, nothing's ever going to keep it down. Only yesterday, I listed the list of crises ...

Will stocks follow Fed exit to the exits?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2013
... has sketched a roadmap to the exits but that the question on when it starts on its journey is still "being debated". Yes folks, the Fed has reportedly punched in the coordinates to the QE exit on its GPS. Frankly Frank, I still don't get what the difference ...

Don't be disappointed if the ECB disappoints

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2013
... "the repair of the transmission channel cannot be done by the central bank alone, governments need to do their part". Yes folks, he asked governments to their part in repairing the broken monetary policy transmission mechanism - lower interest rates ...

First quarter (w)innings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2013
... quarter is anything to go by, financial markets could look forward to more kinder surprises for the rest of the year. Yes folks, the macro theme of rotation and reflation remains in play in spite of some bumps along the way. Bet you still remember the ...

Brazilian CB might need to stop shaving

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2013
... again. After declining to a low of 4.86% back in May 2012, it has re-accelerated to a 15-month high of 6.6% last month. Yes folks, Brazil's in stagflation condition - a dlilemma for any central banker.. The Brazilian central bank might need to stop shaving ...

Grexin Brixit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2013
... but talks of a crisis or disintegration has died down. So has that of a Grexit. Many are now convinced it's Grexin. Yes folks, it's been pretty smooth sailing until... UK Prime Minister David Cameron raises the spectre of a Brixit. Speaking at the London ...