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Fed alert to market reaction to Fed action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2014
... it's time to really, really get sweaty. This reporting quarter, the bar is not only low... it has been lowered. As per Bloomberg, "Profit at S&P 500 companies probably rose 5 percent in the three months through June, while sales gained 3 percent, estimates ...

Here we go again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
... Independence Day Eve, and then some. Not anymore. That was yesterday's news my lady. Today it's all about weak growth. Bloomberg even had to bring back what IMF managing director Christine Lagarde told her audience in France last Sunday. According to ...

All that jazz, all nonsense

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2014
... rather than the first three months of 2016, Goldman Sachs Chief Economist Jan Hatzius wrote in a report yesterday." (Bloomberg) JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd. are reportedly also among those who moved their guesses forward. ...

So good but for the wrong spin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014
... before (10 March 2000). But, but...but perhaps not for the reasons a great many commentariats have imagined them to be. Bloomberg's report serves as a template: "An index of U.S. factory output was little changed near a five-month high, boosting confidence ...

Wall Street is in a spin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2014
... prices skip, hop and jump sharply before or at the same time that Wall Street is down. But nah, nyet, non, no! As per Bloomberg, "Brent for August settlement increased 34 cents, or 0.3 percent, to end the session at $114.46 a barrel on the London-based ...

Wagging the giant doggie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
... requirements for small and rural banks (and increased the number of those banks that qualifies to the cut) and, as per Bloomberg, "China's new yuan loans and money supply topped estimates in May as the government supports economic growth..." All these ...

Wall Street slips on oil slick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... sand dunes of the Middle East, don't we? It spikes. So buckle up coz here we go again. Gulf War the third. Just in from Bloomberg, "Obama Won't Rule Out Airstrikes to Aid Iraq's Army". Oil spikes! "West Texas Intermediate and Brent crudes surged to eight-month ...

The kindness of central banks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2014
... don't scream "Risk On", I don't know what does. And oh, in case you haven't noticed - we're in a bull market. But as Bloomberg prints, quoting Stephen Solaka - managing partner of Belmont Capital Group in Los Angeles - "This is one of the most-hated ...

Everything but the kitchen sink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... nearly 3.0%. That may be but... the euro - another main variable to future inflation and growth - hardly budged. My Bloomberg screen shows that it closed even higher after the "everything but the kitchen sink" announcement - up 0.01% to US$1.3661 from ...

Bloomberg names exec to lead new bond indices business

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2014
The analyst responsible for managing the suite of UBS Australia Bond indices has joined Bloomberg Indexes to head up the company's AusBond Indexes business based in Sydney. In her new role, Kerry Angel will represent the Bloomberg Indexes business in ...