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The Fed's done it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2015
... right, we may soon be coming back down to zero rates. The hawks are ready for a longer flight." Read the full article here: http://www.economist.com/news/21684225-economys-reaction-feds-rate-rise-hard-predict-federal The Economist could have saved itself ...

December lift-off, yeah, sure

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2015
... this one is coming soon, at its next FOMC meeting on 15-16 December. Deja vu? Yes, Virginia, you've read this one before - http://www.financialstandard.com.au/news/view/51858182 -- my rant right after the Fed's July FOMC meeting. I simply replaced the ...

Not this year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2015
... service sector output since the weather-related slowdown recorded in January. Gentle readers could read Markit's take here (http://www.markiteconomics.com/Survey/PressRelease.mvc/8f6534b89b5a4308907cdb7b93d66e6f), but as regards employment: "Reduced ...

WBC rate lift pressures RBA rate cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2015
Who can you bank on, who can you trust? Westpac, you can bank on us! I haven't landed in this great land yet when this catchy jingle from Westpac's ad was playing on Australian TV back in 1989. Thanks to tech magic, I can play, rewind and replay it ...

Reversal of fortunes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2015
... markets sang hallelujah. And why? And why is because as I've scribbled on this space back on 26 August, "It's the Fed, stupid" (http://www.financialstandard.com.au/news/view/52582223). "...we are barking at the wrong tree." I was referring to China. ...

NIRP before lift-off?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2015
... month, perhaps even December... perhaps not until 2017. Last 21 August, I asked on this space, "Should the Fed re-launch QE?" (http://www.financialstandard.com.au/news/view/52472754) arguing that the ills we were seeing at the time were due lift-off ...

So bad it could only be good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
... Economist' magazine explains in its 7 September blog titled, "How China's cash injections add up to quantitative squeezing" (http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2015/09/china-s-economy), the PBOC's balance sheet has been declining as a percentage ...

It's the Fed, stupid

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... root is expectations of a Fed lift-off. I've already discussed this last week on this space -- Should the Fed re-launch QE? (http://www.financialstandard.com.au/news/view/52472754). I'd like to add here that it was the weak US dollar and low US interest ...

Should the Fed re-launch QE?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015
... ranted on this space back then that, "This over-emphasis in the change in semantics is laughable, if not outright stupid..." (http://www.financialstandard.com.au/news/view/51858182) "The Fed's move remains data dependent" The just-released minutes of ...

Too much ado about a speck

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2015
... it happened... yesterday. That thing I mused about exactly five months ago -12 March 2015 - China devalued its currency. (http://www.financialstandard.com.au/news/view/48312386) "It is perhaps still too early for QE, after all, the PBOC's recent policy ...