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Chief economist update: New Fed chief, same policy direction (but more transparent)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2018
... S&P 500 index drop by 1.3%; the yield on 10-year Treasuries climb by three basis points to 2.89%; and the Bloomberg dollar spot index appreciate by 0.6%. Blame it on Jerome Powell and what he told the Committee on Financial Services of the House of Representatives ...

Chief economist update: Inflation isn't such a lonely word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2018
... dollar's depreciation that makes the price of imported goods more expensive and eventually passed on to consumers. The Bloomberg US dollar spot index has weakened by 3.3% this year to date, sending import prices are rising. Import prices jumped 1% in ...

Wall Street interrupted

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 SEP 2017
... Jones Industrial Average gained 1.2% overnight (from -0.9% last week) and regained its hold above the 22,000-point mark; Bloomberg's US dollar spot index increased by 0.6% (down 1.6% last week) and after shedding 10 basis points last week to 2.06%, the ...

No December lift off? Small chance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2015
... 500 index rallied 1.6% overnight and yield on 10-year US Treasuries increased only slightly from 2.26% to 2.27% and Bloomberg's US dollar spot index went down by 0.1%, albeit from an eight-month high. Yes folks, we have prepared and are now prepared ...

December lift-off, yeah, sure

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2015
... is wink, winking, nudge, nudging that it's gonna lift at their next meeting. It's for all to see in the 0.7% jump in Bloomberg's US dollar spot index to 97.59 overnight - the highest in two months. It's for all to see in the 5bps rise in the 10-year ...

Hotel California

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2015
... Friday, have practically made the Fed's policy stance tighter by re-strengthening the exchange value of the US dollar. Bloomberg's US dollar spot index climbed by 2.5% last week with the euro dropping by 3.1% between 16 October and 23 October to US$1.1010 ...

Someone mentioned the "S-word" on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014

In praise of the gloom and doomers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2014

Once more from the top

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2013
... missed it the first time. In the case of China, the PBOC not only talked the talked but it also walked it. According to Bloomberg, "The People's Bank of China has provided financing to some financial institutions to stabilize interbank lending rates ...

Green, green grass of home

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2013
... good as nil because actuals almost never meet expectations. They could be higher or lower and only very rarely spot on. Bloomberg reports on 9 Feb, for instance, that, "About 75 percent of the 341 S&P 500 companies that released results so far in the ...