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BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011
... consequences could be. It could be very serious. It could be less serious. Do we really want to run that experiment?" With the US economy threatening to again unravel, there's a strong likelihood for another QE. Recall that in his testimony to Congress ...

Now for the denominator

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2011
... But...but how could debt be repaid without growth? Tell me, please. It's not even 24 hours since I wrote that the stalling US economy would become investors' fresh fear now that the deal is done and voila, here we are. A sharp 4.4-point drop in the US ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
... cut about $US1 trillion in spending over 10 years and avoid default, which would have had a devastating effect on the US economy and global markets. At 1200 AEST on Monday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 88.6 points, or two per cent, at 4,513.2 ...

It's a deal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
... show a mere 0.36% crawl from the 1.9% previously estimated. Also, GDP revisions going back to 2003 showed that the US economy contracted by a deeper 5.1% during the recession of Q4 2007 to Q2 2009 instead of 4.1%. Consumer spending - that which accounts ...

Complicating the simple

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2011
... the heart of the matter is the simple lifting of the debt ceiling. What's another few dollars more, if it'll save the US economy - and the world - from drowning? US politicians from both sides of the ideological divide can debate and argue all they want ...

DC theatrics

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2011
... (apologies for mixing my games) The positive in all these is that, equity markets have already factored in a slow growing US economy as far as the eye can see. It's priced in! The announcement of a deal on the debt ceiling when - not if - it comes would ...

Super funds talk debt ructions and increasing pensions

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2011
... industry fund, said her biggest concern right now was macroeconomic risks. "The number one threat is not inflation but the US economy and the risk that the debt ceiling might not be raised... and the flow on effect to the equity markets," she said. Pham ...

QE3 - yes, no, maybe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2011
... listened to the rest of his testimony part 1 where he told Congress about his view that the recent slowdown in the US economy had been due to temporary factors - high petrol and Japan disaster-induced disruptions to supply chains. That Sir Ben believes ...

US Fed hints at QE3

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2011
... fund said he believed a third round of US monetary easing was on the cards. "QE3 we think will probably happen if the US economy does slow down further," he said. Cullens said he expects good value cyclical US stocks to outperform in the second half ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
... outright default by Athens, and as worries had also spread to the heavily indebted Italy. Friday's announcement that the US economy had produced almost no new jobs in June, and that the unemployment rate rose to 9.2 per cent, continued to weigh on investor ...

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