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From the mouths of Feds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015
... therefore, "I think that by mid-year it will be the time to have a discussion about starting to raise rates". Cleveland Fed pres Loretta Mester in Paris: "It would be appropriate to raise interest rates sometime this year... We are not going to necessarily ...

Auld lang syne

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2015
"Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind?" - Robert Burns Happy 2015 to all you gentlereaders. We're back in space - cyberspace that is - and, it seems, so are the economic and financial market uncertainties that littered the dying ...

Slides can be fun too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2014
Brent oil up 4.0% to US$72.94 a barrel; WTI oil up 4.9% to US$69.36 a barrel. Is this it? Have we reached bottom oil? Is this the sliding slippery stuff's equilibrium price? Or just a dead feline bounce? As Bob Dylan would sing to you, "the answer my ...

QEnd

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2014
... whatever happened to the Fed's warning over the strengthening US dollar impacting negatively on growth? Recall what NY Fed pres William Dudley told his audience at the Bloomberg Markets Most Influential Summit in New York just about a month ago: "If ...

Jawbone collection

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2014
Just when I was about to ditch Chumbawamba's "I get knocked down" as the equity market's 2014 anthem... the central bankers came and (re)played it all again. "I get knocked down but I get up again, you're never going to keep me down". Nah Virginia ...

The good oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2014
... If still not enough, there's still the un-taper and re-reflate, I mused about on this space yesterday. San Francisco Fed pres John Williams' singing the same song I sang, humming to Reuters that, "If we really get a sustained, disinflationary forecast... ...

Un-taper re-reflate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
Like a dog with a bone, financial markets have latched onto growth - or more precisely, the lack of it - and wouldn't let go. Wall Street remains in no mood for celebration even as America commemorated the day Christopher Columbus discovered their land ...

Seesaw on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
In droves they returned... the bargain hunters, the bottom fishers and the dip buyers - turning the previous day's see on Wall Street into last night's saw. All are thanking the friendly International Monetary Fund (IMF) for opening up another entry ...

Average September on average

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2014
... pressure on Uncle Sam's money. And this is no good in terms of the outlook for Uncle Sam's county. To repeat what NY Fed pres William Dudley said last week, "If the dollar were to strengthen a lot, it would have consequences for growth... We would have ...

Watching you watching me watching you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2014
"Round like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel Never ending or beginning on an ever spinning reel..." - Noel Harrison It's up, it's down... it's goin' round and round. Yup Virginia, that's Wall Street for you. But the up one day (on dip ...