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All about the slack

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... member's mind. It certainly is on BOE deputy governor of monetary policy Ben Broadbent who, in his recent interview with Bloomberg, stated that, "What's clear is that the amount of slack is being eaten up much more quickly than we thought it would be ...

Chumbawamba rules

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
... Azeris are fighting (again) over Nagorno-Karabakh - "a mountainous enclave about the size of Rhode Island," according to Bloomberg. According to reports fighting started after the Soviet Union broke up in 1991, ceased fire in 1994 with bouts of intermittent ...

'As expected' changing expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
... jump with joy and sing hallelujah last night? Could it be because of the return of 'The Maestro'? In his interview on Bloomberg TV, former Fed head Alan Greenspan warned that, "The stock market has recovered so sharply for so long, you have to assume ...

Punishing Putin (harder)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
... full-scale commercial warfare that could damage its own economy, which is still shaking off the euro debt crisis." (Bloomberg) America knows it. Here's Bloomberg again, "Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew, speaking to reporters today in Riverdale, Iowa ...

Dip-buying pays

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2014
... time) and then... the dip shoppers went a-shopping, turning that 0.6% loss into a small plus 0.03% gain by the close. Bloomberg says this is because of "merger activity and optimism over corporate earnings". As if! As if, companies only started merging ...

It's all about the US week

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2014
... decision. It can't afford to lose face, to erode its credibility. Here, consensus expectations are also positive. As per Bloomberg, "Employers probably added more than 200,000 jobs for a sixth consecutive month in July, according to the median estimate ...

Arrows and more arrows

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2014
... A¥105.31 at the end of 2013. The easy way out is for the BOJ to keep on pumpin' more money. But if today's report on Bloomberg is accurate, it might be easier said than done. "A majority of the nine members disagree with Kuroda's view that flooding ...

Another October to remember?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2014
... risen appreciably and valuation metrics have increased, they remain generally in line with historical norms." However, Bloomberg's latest poll of financial professionals found "three in five saying the market is on the verge of a bubble or already in ...

Down one day, dip buying the next

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2014
... close of last week's trade. Yet, and yes, the dip buyers pounced... sending the S&P 500 index up by 1.0% on the 18th. Bloomberg says, it's because of earnings. "About 77 percent of the 82 companies in the S&P 500 that have posted results this earnings ...

A sign from the holy spirit?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014
... Italy (down 1.9%). Even the Germany's DAX and France's CAC indices fell - down 1.5% and 1.3%, respectively. Similarly, Bloomberg reports that, "The cost of insuring senior financial debt in Europe rose for a fifth day. The Markit iTraxx Financial Index ...