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RBA to deliver nothing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2015
... protection/insurance, the fresh negative out of China should be no worries. By the by, the Greek stock market re-opened last night - after its five week closure - the Athens SE general index dropped by as much as 23% before closing 16.2% lower. To quote ...

Watching out for the Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
... US Treasury bond and the 10-year US Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS). The differential stood at 1.75% last night, down from 1.87% at the end of June. Hence, the jury's still out. Perhaps, not for long. We may even receive a telegraph message ...

Chinese whispers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
... couldn't handle. Even the VIX index - the "fear gauge" - is not perturbed. It rose from 13.74 last Friday to 15.60 last night. This is lower than the plus 20 reading it reached back in January this year when the Shanghai Composite index dropped by 7.7% ...

Gold's no longer gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
... does not contain the prospect of a fall in capital value - not for now at least. US bond yields have climbed to 2.38% last night from 2.17% at the start of the year and there may be more losses from US Treasuries coming once the Fed starts lift-off. ...

Fed lady sings (the same old song)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2015
... better-than-expected US company earnings reports and another up day in China and not what she sang before the Senate Banking Committee last night. I could only guess that this is because, despite the numerous headline spins, the song she sang remains ...

Chexit, Checcident and Chimbo

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2015
... to lift a finger. Yes Virginia, it didn't happen overnight but it did happen. The A$ broke below US$0.74 (US$0.7398) last night - the first since mid-2009 - despite the RBA keeping interest rates on hold and... with nary a hint of a rate cut in the future. ...

An ordinary trading day on D-day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2015
... - reached a peak reading of only 18.85 over the past month (15.8% below the 2015 peak of 22.39 hit in January). And last night, when D-day came... and went, it dropped by 3.3% to a reading of 18.23 instead of soaring up into the stratosphere. It could ...

D-day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2015
Tonight's the night we make history. Whatever happens, it'll be D-day! D for the IMF declaring Greece in "default"; D for yet another extension of a "deal" or "deal talks"; D for that mythical Damocles' sword falling not only over Damocles' head but ...

Fedcident waiting to happen?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
... safe assets like bonds"? The yield on 10-year US Treasuries has risen from this year's low of 1.64% to 2.41% (as at last night). And this still doesn't include the negative repercussions on the US economy that higher US interest would bring - a stronger ...

Extensions - What the Greeks await and the Russians hate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
... scheduled two-day EU leaders' "emergency summit" on Greece's bailout... it's not the last minute. That will be tomorrow night. That's when the fat lady sings. I still maintain that she'll be singing a happy melody. However, this isn't the end of Europe's ...