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The game markets play

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2013
... when the word "taper" first came into the markets' fear jargon but it took us all this time to finally understand. Yes Virginia, nothing much has changed...much. Apart from the slight attack of the nerves when the S&P 500 dropped by nearly 6% between ...

Clear as crystal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
... Committee on 22 May, good ol' Uncle Ben left nothing to various interpretations this time. Do you still remember that day Virginia? 'Twas on that day that Fed taper speculations started. The day when the Fed head responded, "If we see continued improvement ...

A prince, a princess or a frog?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013
... will he risk the headlines putting their own spins to his words? And we know what headlines and spinmeisters are like Virginia, don't we now my lovely? Those camped outside St Mary's Hospital in Paddington in central London are more fortunate. The spinmeisters ...

Designer slowdown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2013
... that place where it's able to withstand a fed funds rate higher than the current 0 0.25%. Yeah you got that exactamondo Virginia, this was the same message Big Ben delivered at his testimony before the Joint Economics Committee on the 22nd of May, and ...

Peace, be still

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
... calm. And he said to them, why are you so fearful? How is it that you have no faith?" -Mark 4:38-40, The Bible You betcha Virginia, the bearded Money Messiah has spoken...and the markets heard that it was good. The gospel according to Ben Bernake, "The ...

Adjusting for adjustments

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2013
... forecast to 7.8% for 2013 (from 8.1% it predicted in April) and 7.7% for 2014 (from 8.3%). But weren't we here before Virginia? Recall how scared we all were when China's economy went from double-digit rates of growth in 2006 to early 2008 to single ...

Lotsa data but no game change (yet)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2013
"Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink." Sure Virginia, there had been quite a number of data releases before, and while we slept, but they're not the sort that could be considered game changers. We still have to sit and wait for the more ...

Improving picture paints a taper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
... the participation rate (yup, more workers are encouraged to look for jobs). Wall Street has come back around to what Virginia and I have been saying all along all this time: Good news is good news. Bad news is good taper news. To which we subsequently ...

Guiding it forward

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013

The others

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2013
... shopping exercise but he could easily disguise it as insurance against China's slowdown. And who'll complain? Not moi nor Virginia...and I don't think the RBA will too.