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Two-year road to Brexit begins

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAR 2017
It's official. It's signed, sealed and delivered. Making good on the promise she made in October last year, UK prime minister Theresa May invoked Article 50 of the Treaty of the European Union formally setting in motion the two-year time limit for negotiations ...

Going good but there are risks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 MAR 2017
... furnishings and appliances, etc. But it's interesting to note that the OECD have issued the same warning as far back as 2003 (http://www.oecd.org/eco/outlook/focusonhouseprices.htm) when it published a table that Australian house prices (weighted average ...

Will 2017 be a mirror image of 2016?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 JAN 2017
... Virginia, here's 'The Telegraph's" headline (dated 11 January 2016), "RBS cries 'sell everything' as deflationary crisis nears" (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/02/11/rbs-cries-sell-everything-as-deflationary-crisis-nears/) - referring to a ...

CPI says RBA no go on Melbourne Cup Day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 OCT 2016
... commodity prices and feeling of reduced pricing power - behind the low inflation environment Australia is currently facing. (http://www.rba.gov.au/speeches/2016/sp-gov-2016-10-18.html) To divine the inflation future, let's take a look at what's happening ...

Christmas in September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2016
Ho, ho, ho. Merry Christmas everybody, merry Christmas! The Bank of Japan (BOJ) and the US Federal Reserve (Fed) played jolly old saint Nicolas, decking the financial market halls with boughs of holly (fa la la...) on the 21st of September. Santa Kuroda ...

Read the data not the Fed's lips

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2016
Yes, no, maybe, I don't know. Sit down, buckle up and hang on Virginia for we're heading into the 'Hole' - Jackson Hole, that is. There'll be to-ing and fro-ing aplenty leading up to Janet's homily at 'The Hole' this coming Thursday and Friday and perhaps ...

Sell everything (again?)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2016
... forgotten, here's 'The Telegraph's" headline (dated 11 January 2016), "RBS cries 'sell everything' as deflationary crisis nears" (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/02/11/rbs-cries-sell-everything-as-deflationary-crisis-nears/) - referring to a ...

Bremorsing and Bregretting Brexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2016
Be careful what you wish for you might just get it. Events are still fluid, speculations still abound, but one thing is certain Brexiteers got what they wished for but recent reports suggest that the 51.9% who voted to say adieu to the EU now regret ...

Market confidence marches in March

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2016
... for over 85 percent of global GDP. It reflects changes in global output, employment, new business, backlogs and prices. (http://www.mypivots.com/dictionary/definition/750/global-composite-pmi) The latest readings are no good. The composite PMI reading ...

Who can dig a deeper hole?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2016
... negative deposit rates, are directly funding the negative interest rate paid to those who wish to take out debt. The article (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-01-30/denmark-you-are-now-paid-take-out-mortgage) was dated 31 January 2015 - shortly after ...