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Fed gets green light

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2017
US data releases dumped on our screens overnight, combined with easing US/North Korean tensions, provide another green light for the Fed to proceed with policy normalisation. Balance sheet unwinding and another rate hike before 2017 turns into 2018 ...

Moody's downgraded and upgraded China's ratings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2017
... corporates, shrink corporate earnings causing a fall in the stock market, eroding business, investor and household confidence. But nah! China's financial markets didn't give it two hoots. The Shanghai Composite index went up by 0.1% on the day of the ...

Eurozone ascending

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2017
... I mention Greece (which again failed to secure the latest €7 billion tranche of bailout funds from its creditors) - but nah, ever since Greece burned the Grexit bridge out of the Eurozone and said they'll stay, the threat of contagion faded away - ...

Christmas not spent

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2017
... up 1.1% in the December quarter from up 0.7% in the September quarter. This is the strongest quarterly gain in a year. But nah, it won't make for a sensational headline.

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2016
Australian residential property prices Figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics showed residential property prices in the country's eight capital cities rebounded by 2.0% in the June quarter. Although this is less than market expectations ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2016
US housing market index The NAHB housing market index rose to a reading of 65 in September, a sharp improvement from the previous month's 59 level. This was better than the expected increase to 60 and the best reading since October 2015. Better, all ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2016
Empire State manufacturing survey Factory activity in the New York region softened in August with the Empire State manufacturing index falling to a reading of minus 4.21 in the month from 0.6 in the previous month and expectations for a 2.5 print. While ...

The Fed's done it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2015
... Morning Herald already had first dibs. "The Fed Awakens". Not a chance, The Economist magazine got in first. "End of an era". Nah, Reuters's already there, dated and time stamped at that. Still, I cannot get over news.com.au's, "The long wait is over ...

Lead us not into a recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... down only 0.71% from the previous three-month's average. As it has been "whenever we find ourselves in times of trouble" -- nah, Mother Mary doesn't come speaking words of wisdom, we turn to Gov Glenn singing Queen's "Save me, save me, save me I can't ...

Five minutes of commodity sunshine?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
... Australian consumer and business confidence are due out today (take note). This, or traders just decide to sell on the upswing. Nah, I'm not turning into the clawed, furry animal... merely pointing out the difficulty in reading what's in the collective ...