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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
... seven-year high after the Bank of Japan announced its surprise decision in a bid to drag the economy back from the brink of recession. The Nikkei jumped 4.83 per cent, adding 755.56 points to 16,413.76 - its highest since November 2007 - with buying ...

Goodbye QE, hello QQE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
... stimulus anytime soon. Thank goodness you and I, Virginia, weren't tricked - we warned a repeat of the slowdown into recession when the consumption tax rate was raised from 3% to 5% back in April 1997 and watched the economic indicators swooned after ...

Real stagflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014
... or wrongly, the disappointment over the election outcome is understandable. Brazil's economy has slowed and is now in recession since Rousseff assumed the presidency in January 2011, inflation has risen and along with it, interest rates. Annual growth ...

ECB QE go riding on Fed QE stop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014
... 2.0%) in 2015 and bearing in mind that German GDP contracted by 0.2% in the second quarter, suggest that a triple dip recession... and by extension, deflation, is a real and present danger. This is where the success or non-success of the Fed's taper ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2014
... chief Mario Draghi at the EU summit in Brussels said states needed to make efforts to avoid the eurozone relapsing into recession. Germany and France have clashed over loosing the EU's fiscal corset to provide more stimulus as growth stalls as the region ...

Caterpillar economy turns into a butterfly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014
... Over Past Month Leading Indicators Index Shows U.S. Economy to Keep Growing Euro-Area Manufacturing Grows as Risk of Recession Eases Spanish Unemployment Lowest Since 2011 as Economy Grows China Factory Gauge Rises as Workers Weather Slowdown You got ...

Volatile like its 2011

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
... and Irene were concerned over the probability of a break up in the single currency area and, at the time, the looming recession there and the magnitude as to which this is transmitted to the rest of the world." Yup, the same scare - except perhaps, without ...

Are we there yet?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2014
... volatility and a sell-off in risk assets. Latest weak stats out of the eurozone are prompting fears of a triple dip recession there. But we already know this, right Virginia? From the time the second quarter GDP growth figures were released three months ...

Time to get shorty?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2014

Flatline

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
... the Asian Crisis when it dropped from more than US$0.80 to below US$0.60. It deflected the fallout from the 2001 US recession and September 11 by depreciating from US$0.65 to below US$0.50. It cushioned the economy during the GFC when it dropped from ...