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What might trigger a sell-off?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... much bellyaching over below-potential or slowing growth today, a sharp sell-off in asset markets would spark another recession (like it did during the global financial crisis of six or seven years ago) for sure and for certain. Take us home good Gov ...

The real problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
... seething with envy for much as it wants to join the race to reverse the slump in the economy which has dipped back into recession - GDP contracted by 0.2% in the third quarter of last year and by 0.8% in the second - rising inflation in the country prevents ...

IFM acquires US$5.7 billion highway

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
... is a core infrastructure asset with defensive characteristics, demonstrated by strong financial resilience during the recession. IFM Investors views the Indiana Toll Road as an essential operating asset for its strategic geographical position, long concession ...

Beauty in(foreign) beholders' eyes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015
... economy is "sliding down the precipice" due to "glacial" reform efforts, with a weakness in domestic demand that was "recession-like..." The bad news doesn't end here. There's more. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) quoted Standard & Poor's analyst Craig ...

BOJ optimistic as forever

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2015
... lending facility and pro-growth funding facility. Certainly, not straight after reports that the economy emerged out of recession in the fourth quarter -- disappointing as it may be, growth is still growth -- with real GDP expanding at annualised rate ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2015
... shares ended above 18,000 for the first time in more than seven years, supported by data showing the economy had exited recession. Tokyo rose 0.51 per cent, or 91.41 points, to finish at 18,004.77 - the first time it has been above the psychologically ...

Economists divided over Europe growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015
... oil prices is likely to help growth in Europe and that wages in both Europe and the US are low enough after the global recession for multinational companies to relocate there.

I'm with Bill

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2015
... turned out to be 2.6% in 2014 - while it got the US right, it was wide off the mark on Europe and more so, Japan (now in recession). This time in 2013, the same WEP report printed that, "The world economy is on the brink of another major downturn" because ...

Oil price shock, nice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2015
... cartel and their oil embargo. The jump in crude prices from below US$5.00 a barrel to US$15.50 in 1973 induced a US recession, a stock market crash, widening current account deficits for oil importers, petrol rationing, energy workers' strike, and so ...

Santa's bargains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 DEC 2014
... would not weaken as a result of cheaper oil. Think the oil price shock of the 70's and 80s and the high inflation and recession that followed. While we're reminiscing, let's recall the scares of more recent times, as in... just this year. There were ...