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Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
... "wane gradually." In fact, BOJ governor Kuroda thinks that the economy "has been growing above its potential growth rate". Yup, Kuroda san said this at his press conference on 4 September when the BOJ kept monetary policy unchanged as expected. Sure ...

FRBSF takes on Jackson Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
Thank you FRBSF! Join me Virginia, in thanking the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (yup, that's what the FRBSF stands for) for its recently-released economic research titled, "Assessing Expectations of Monetary Policy". Thank the FRBSF for bringing ...

Humanitarian you, humanitarian me too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2014
... positive spin, that is. It's now turned into "I'll take your humanitarian mission and raise you my humanitarian mission". Yup, the combatants have all become humanitarians now! What a relief for you and for me and the entire human race 'ey? Obama started ...

'As expected' changing expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
... balanced and judges that the likelihood of inflation running persistently below 2 percent has diminished somewhat." (30 July). Yup, you got that right. The Fed's no longer concerned over disinflation. This tie in with the National Accounts report that ...

Mission accomplished?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2014
... settings and by how much. "The previous change in Bank Rate was a reduction of 0.5 percentage points to 0.5% on 5 March 2009." Yup, that long ago! It also noted the timing and size of its asset purchase programme. "A programme of asset purchases financed ...

Fed alert to market reaction to Fed action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2014
... to spook markets and/or accounted for likely market reaction. For example, on the topic of "Monetary Policy Normalization", yup they're considering it but... it lest it spook the markets, add in "this topic was undertaken as part of prudent planning ...

Independence Day for the US economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
... payrolls internals to check if the "slack" she talks about remains "considerable". "Large numbers of partly unemployed workers" - yup. The U-6 unemployment rate or what the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) define as "Total unemployed, plus all persons ...

Watching you watching me watching you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2014
... 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 buying on other reason/s the spinmeisters could think ...

The waiting game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2014
... this week is also when Japan's consumption tax rises from 5% to 8% -- the first since it was raised from 3% to 5% in 1997. Yup, that one that many thought returned the economy to recession and deflation and claimed the scalp of then Prime Minister Hashimoto. ...

The scares that weren't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
... that Putin's got the US and Europe by the cojones. Latest news out is that Ukraine is pulling its soldiers out of Crimea. Yup, it effectively ceded Crimea to Russia... and the financial markets simply ignored this. Nothing left but to enjoy our weekend ...