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It's all about the US week

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2014
... tilted on the side of Wall Street. The Fed would ensure it stays that way. More so, should this week's second quarter GDP growth and employment numbers disappoint market expectations.

US bond yields zipped by ZIRP?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
... declared in his interview with Fox Business News last week. At its June meeting, the Fed revised its outlook as follows: GDP growth at 2.1%-2.3% for 2014, down from 2.8%-3.0% predicted in March; the unemployment rate at 6.0% - 6.1% this year, down from ...

James knows when

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014
... start lift-off. Just look at how the Fed changed its outlook in a span of just three months: The June Fed outlook: GDP growth at 2.1%-2.3% for 2014, down from 2.8%-3.0% predicted in March; the unemployment rate at 6.0% - 6.1% this year, down from 6.1%-6.3% ...

But they said it was Iraq

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
... decent gains particularly given worse than expected updates on the US economy released overnight. First quarter US real GDP growth was revised to show a 2.9% annualised rate of contraction - from the second estimate's minus 1.0% and the first's minus ...

Good or bad, it's all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
... else you, I and Irene would be reading headlines talkin' 'bout concerns that the third estimate of US first quarter GDP growth is expected to be revised lower from a contraction of 1.0% to 1.8%. Yes Virginia, for there is nothing else to explain a drop ...

Steady as she goes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2014
... costs of such purchases". That's Aunt Janet talking at her post-meeting press conference. The current Fed outlook: GDP growth at 2.1%-2.3% for 2014, down from 2.8%-3.0% predicted in March; the unemployment rate at 6.0% - 6.1% this year, down from 6.1%-6.3% ...

Growth and consequence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2014
... have been too easy for the Fed to justify its steady taper as she goes despite the National Accounts showing that real GDP growth slowed to a snail dragging a very heavy object pace - 0.1% -- in the first quarter from 2.6% in the previous one, the weather ...

Masseurs Tony and Joey

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014
... it chokes Australia's economic growth to death. It's now expected to detract only 0.1 percentage point from 2014/15 GDP growth, not the feared 0.3 - 0.5 percentage point subtraction. The growth estimates contained in the Budget papers are conservative. ...

ECB to stay in May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014
... Bank president Mario Draghi yesterday, but we would have had the Fed's policy announcement and America's first quarter GDP growth update not drowned out the latest reading on eurozone inflation. And it was good - well, sort of. Euro area inflation edged ...

May the Fed be with you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
... generally believe that a significant part of the recent softness was weather related." Indeed! US first quarter real GDP growth stalled in the first quarter, up by an itsy-bitsy-teenie-weenie 0.1% in the first quarter - and this folks, is an annualised ...