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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2016
... same period - equal to July's growth but less than the 2.0% expected. Household loans increased by 1.8% in the year to August of 2016 (equal to the previous month's growth rate) and loans to non-financial corporations grew by 1.9% (same as July's rate) ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2016
... went up 5.8% year-on-year in June of 2016, accelerating for the third straight month and reaching the highest since August of 2014, reports Trading Economics. The figures were slightly above market expectations of 5.7 percent, driven by food costs. India ...

Time to be fearful?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2013
... gauge". The VIX index closed at a reading of 18.6 overnight. Ho-hum. That isn't fear! Fear was the reading of 48 back in August of 2011. Panic was the reading of 80.86 in November of 2008. What about the bond market? The Bank of America Merrill Lynch ...

The great unwind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013
... October 2008 or even the spike to a 48 something reading during the European sovereign debt crisis induced fear moment in August of 2011. There'll be more volatility and losses in store for the bond market should the Fed carry out its tapering threat. ...

Off the cliff and into the ceiling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2013
... better believe it. For we've been here before. Remember autumn 2011? The S&P 500 index dropped by 17.3% from July to August of that year due to the impasse on the budget ceiling and Standard & Poor's took away one A from America's AAA credit rating. ...

Fool me not again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2012
... snip an A out of the USA's triple A (which it eventually did). That was real fear. The VIX index soared to 48 points in August of last year because of these fears from a low of 14.62 only four months before. Now that was real fear! Besides these, America ...

Fed twists again like it did last summer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2012
... 500 has dropped by a mere 4.5%. Uncle Ben announced QE2 in 2010 after the S&P dropped by around 15% between April and August of that year. Last year's 17% drop in the S&P 500 from July to August gave birth to Operation Twist in September. Another reason ...

BNP thaws out frozen funds

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2007
... developed a new pricing model for the funds. BNP suspended trading due to what it called "the sudden evaporation from 6 August of any trading activity on certain sectors of the US market." The company said the closure was designed to "protect all investors ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2007
... when the official cash rate last hit 5.75 per cent in February 2001 household debt had reached $409 billion whereas by August of last year with the same interest rates, household debt had reached about $900 billion.

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2006
... metropolitan newspapers as well as the internet has risen by 0.3 per cent in September following the fall of 1.3 per cent in August of this year. The present level is still 20.4 per cent higher than at this time last year. The number of newspaper advertisements ...