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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
... meeting of the European Central Bank on Thursday night, which some believe could result in new stimulus measures for the eurozone economy. In the US, unemployment numbers are to be released on Friday night. "The hesitation from investors is likely to ...

Carried away by the dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2014

The certainty in a sea of uncertainties

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2014

Recycling the same old, same old

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
... remaining "slack", the "under-utilisation" in the labour market. No sir. Speaking of slack, they may even be expanding in the Eurozone. While Germany's unemployment rate steadied at 6.7% in August from July, the number of Germans out of work increased ...

Easy money to fill in the slack at the Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
... free-flowing - almost free in the US and Britain and will be flowing more (sooner rather than later) in Japan and the Eurozone - for a "considerable time". "Re-Evaluating Labour Market Dynamics" is the conference's theme this year. The captains of our ...

Janet's Jackson

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014
... -- less than 8 points (0.4%) shy from reaching its 2,000-point milestone. Not even reports of slowing activity in the Eurozone and in China - as indicated by the latest PMI surveys - dented investors' optimism. Why? In a word, Janet. She got us babe. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014
... cheered by hints the US Federal Reserve could raise interest rates sooner than expected in view of US growth, despite mixed eurozone data. Frankfurt's main DAX index on Thursday jumped 0.93 per cent compared with Wednesday's close to end the day at 9,401.53 ...

Putin pontificates peace

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014
... Janet Yellen would be singing Cher's, "babe, I got you babe". Speaking of stall, that's exactly what the bad news on the Eurozone is - its economy stalled in the second quarter. The region's economic growth decelerated to nothing in the June quarter ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014
... including a weaker-than-expected report on retail sales in the US, the world's largest economy. Investors also focused on eurozone growth data, with recovery in the crisis-battered region appearing to stall in the second quarter, as the main growth engines ...

Because I'm happy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
... the close - because the DAX's happier - up 1.4% -- despite data showing that inflation in the biggest economy of the Eurozone decelerated to an annual rate of 0.8% in July - the lowest since February 2010 and below the ECB's 2.0% target - from 1.0% in ...