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Inflation expectations says no

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2015
... investors put their money where their crystal balls are - that showed the odds of a lift-off in October at 7% and December at 36% (yup, not even a coin flip). The US dollar's fall to three-week low overnight -- down 5.4% from its March peak - supports ...

Central banks of the world, coordinate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2015

Gloom and doom news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... bombings and over the weekend, Paris. And then there are the market technicals - they're bearish... and momentum - it's down. Yup, it's gloom and it's doom... everywhere. But wait! This might just be what the doctor ordered. For it was the period such ...

September -- morn or mourn?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
... Atlanta President Dennis Lockhart on Tuesday, and a surprisingly strong report on U.S. service-sector growth Wednesday morning". Yup, that's it financial markets saw the surge in the US ISM Non-Manufacturing index in July - economy is gaining momentum ...

Round and round we go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
... "expert" forecasters' rationales - nay, excuses - for why they got it wrong were oh so, predictable. China fudged the numbers. Yup, the go to reason whenever China refuses to kowtow down to their expectations. Much less succumb to the Chicken Little ...

Stirred but not shaken

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015
... sum of all the markets' fears equal to at present. And oh, Cyprus' General Market Index even ended 0.22%... in the green. Yup, Cyprus, the country which also suffered a bank run two years ago as it negotiated a bail-out with what was then the 'troika' ...

Fedcident waiting to happen?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
... and way below the 2015 high of 22.39 (when the Swiss National Bank abandoned its defense of the Swiss franc - 15 January). Yup, the SNB brought more fear in the market - not one expected it - than this long-running (now in its fifth season) Greek saga ...

The recesssion we longed to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015
... Statistics). It had been so long since Australia has had a recession - 1991 -- that I had to boot up my database to check. And yup, it's confirmed. These sorts of capex numbers - actual and expected - are consistent with the "recession we had to have" ...

Follow the money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
... speculation would only move from September to October (a fine time for it coincides with the month the Fed nailed QE3's coffin). Yup, QE3's finished, over and done with... but surprise surprise, the Fed's balance sheet is still expanding - it's expanded ...

No downing the dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
... reduces the need for the RBA to "adjust policy as needed". Double-up. And then there's the flipside to the A$/US$ exchange - yup, the dollar US. The US dollar index dropped by 1.0% overnight to its lowest level since February this year, down 6.7% from ...