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Asia already benefiting from fall in oil prices

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
... Given that India imports 85% of its oil, lower prices will also benefit the country's terms of trade and current account deficit. BlackRock also said that emerging market producers such as Venezuela, Russia and several Gulf nations are "likely to suffer" ...

Central bank surprises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2015
Surprises, surprises, and more surprises. We're yet to complete the first month of 2015 and thus far, we've gotten central bank surprises a-plenty... and they're not kinder surprises either. We've seen the Swiss National Bank (SNB) stomp the CHF1.20/euro ...

That other surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2015
... who're those peddling that cheap oil is bad? And it gets better. Recent reports show that the country's merchandise trade deficit has narrowed to US$9.4 billion in December - down 44.3% from a month earlier and 7.8% from December 2013. This would represent ...

Nearly there?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2015
The price of crude continues to dance the limbo (how low can you go?) After a strong start, Wall Street buckled after lunch as the price of WTI dropped to a low of US$44.20 a barrel and Brent touched US$45.19. The S&P 500 index gained as much as 1.4% ...

Oil price shock, nice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2015
I thought that in my lifetime I would never see someone out there in this galaxy wishin' and hopin' and prayin' higher oil prices to be. (Apart from those extracting, producing, investing in and lending to oil companies and nations, that is). And oh ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2014
... London's benchmark FTSE 100 index shed 0.38 per cent to 6,716.63 points, as markets chose to focus on austerity and busted deficit targets rather than growth forecasts being revised upwards. Eurozone government bond yields fell on the expectations of ...

The recession we're wishing to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014
... still thinks we're in recession... we never got out of it since 2009 - we worry about rising joblessness, rising budget deficit, rising debt, rising property prices, improving US and UK economies and the prospect of interest rate hikes there. We're losing ...

Crowding in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
... Equivalence'... with a twist. David Riccardo posited back in the 1820's that given increased government spending (read deficit), rational consumers would merely save the extra money to compensate for what they expect to be increased taxes in the future ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014
... one cent to $1.495 after reporting a first half loss of $13.59 million, but it was an improvement on the $31.62 million deficit of a year ago.

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014
... dropped $US2.8 billion, or 0.6 per cent, to $US499.4 billion in September, the Commerce Department reported. The US trade deficit widened in September to $US43.0 billion as exports slowed and imports remained flat from the previous month. LONDON - European ...