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Ganging up on greenback

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2009
... stunning annualised rate of 4.8 per cent in the third quarter. But no! Iie! Nein! Nyet! Japan remains worried about deflation. So much so that on the same day the GDP report was released, it announced plans for new budget spending. The rising yen is ...

Bears cursed by September curse

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2009
General financial market optimism and momentum defeated the curse of September this year. Recall that on the very first day of September I wrote that, "the line of least resistance is for history to re-assert itself." Id est, worries that September ...

The Venus solution

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2009
... deflationary pressures. Last night, the OECD chief economist Jorgen Elmeskov predicted that there is no serious risk of deflation among developed economies. Except Japan, that is, where he expects deflation to be banished "definitely not... this year ...

Fear not a rate rise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2009
... company reporting season. And lastly, annual CPI inflation fell by 2.1 per cent in July - the fifth consecutive month of deflation. But the core rate increased by 1.5 per cent - just right for the Fed's liking. But while the US flips and flops between ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2009
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open lower after a fall on Wall Street on Friday and weaker commodity prices. At 0749 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was 28 points lower at 4397. The August reporting ...

It's coming true

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2009
... pace of inventory liquidation is a short term negative but positive longer term. And then there was the prospect of deflation, indicated by the bigger than expected 0.7 per cent decline in import prices in July. Import prices deflated by 19.3 per cent ...

Best laid plan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
... is more concerned about preventing the opposite from occuring. In other words, Benny is more worried about preventing deflation from gaining a foothold. Need I mention Japan's lost decade...and still counting? All because of falling prices. Deflation ...

Another dead feline bounce

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2009
... has fallen to a record low of 68 per cent during the month. And still there's more. The US appears to be headed for deflation. Annual headline CPI inflation fell to 1.4 per cent in June, down from a decline of 1.3 per cent in the previous month. Record ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2009
... A stronger yen continued to weigh on Japanese exporters, while new wholesale price data stoked worries that renewed deflation could hinder a recovery in the world's number two economy. The benchmark Nikkei-225 index dropped 3.78 points, or 0.04 per cent ...

Lost decade redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
... Japan count on domestic demand to take up the slack -- not with a rising unemployment and more recently, the return to deflation. Japan's unemployment rate reach 5.2 per cent in May, up from 5.0 per cent in the previous month and only 4.1 per cent at ...