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Up, Down, Flat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2009
... at 0 - 0.25 per cent and did not change to its debt buyback schedule. It also cannot make up its mind. Inflation or deflation? Commodity prices are rising but so much economic slack remains. More weakness or recovery? Consumer spending is improving but ...

Refreshing pause

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
... could face in the long run. Exit strategy. Humungous national debt levels. Rising inflation. Rising interest rates. Deflation. US$ depreciation. Below potential growth. Stagflation. Another bubble. You name it. The risk here is that by being boggled ...

Vantage point

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2009
... going forward. They will cite last night's 0.4 per cent year-on-year fall in US headline inflation in March and how deflation - if it persists - would bring about a new set of problems. All valid arguments, I agree. But this is to be expected as the ...

Beggar thy neighbour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2009
... effectively tightened monetary policy, dampening economic activity and now threatens to put the country in a state of deflation. The Swiss response? Explicit currency depreciation. Not wanting to be left holding the bag containing the most expensive ...

Spring springs on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2009
... Journal warning that credit cards would be the next to be crunched. They did not see reports that China recorded is now in deflation for the first time in six years. They did not hear the IMF's warning that it now 'expects global growth to slow below ...

Treasuries still strong: ML

RUTH LIEW AND MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
... sub-trend over the next couple of years at least. And as a result that would probably lead to enhance the chances of deflation so we expect to see falling prices, typically like the one we had in Japan in the 1990s. "While [Treasuries are] obviously ...

Bonds no safer than houses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2009
... 55-year low of 2.08 per cent and 30-years to 2.55 per cent. For a quick reference, these yield levels reflected the deflation and deep recession the US suffered during the mid-1950s. Are we perhaps going to relive this 50s experience when US consumer ...

Free money can be costly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  SUNDAY, 23 NOV 2008
Inflation is out and deflation is the new black. If the prospect for falling prices becomes entrenched even free money will be expensive. Just over four months ago when crude oil reached nearly US$150 a barrel, many central bankers remained keenly focused ...

Mine's bigger than yours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
... offer money at zero costs as well. While it looks tempting to be offered free money, it also creates its own problem - deflation. Just ask Japan.

Yen caught in crossfire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2008
... export markets. At the same time, households would defer spending as they wait for better deals on their purchases. Deflation, which has beleaguered Japan for much of the 1990s, would make a comeback. Years of the economy bumping along the bottom would ...