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PBOC does an SNB

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
... months of 2015 from 11.4% in the period between January and June and 15.7% in December 2014. But hey, isn't this what the Politburo want as it tries to rebalance the economy towards consumption? While financial markets view the PBOC's move as smack of ...

Too much ado about a speck

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2015
... financial markets were happy at China's poor trade figures because that meant stimulation is coming pronto. Sure, the Politburo didn't give markets the kind of stimulation - lowered interest rate or lowered reserve requirement or fiscal pump priming ...

Chexit, Checcident and Chimbo

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2015
... emerging markets index now... and other combinations and permutations to that effect. But that will happen only if the Politburo takes it sitting down. But it's not. May I remind you again that China is a command economy - the Politburo commands, the ...

New kid on the block

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2015
... in a bubble back then until... popped went the weasel). China's in a bull market because it's state sanctioned. The Politburo wants to run with the bulls. Here's Bloomberg again, "Zhou Xiaochuan, who heads the People's Bank of China and has cut interest ...

China growth as Li likes it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2015
... - China's 7.4% 2014 growth is the lowest in decades, the slowest in nearly a quarter of a century and it missed the Politburo's 7.5% target. You want more? Here's more. The just-released IMF "World Economic Outlook" shows China growing with a 6 in front ...

Bad tidings for Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014
... loans those bonds rated below AAA or those sold by issuers rated below AA. Not only this, there's speculation that the Politburo would dictate a "new normal" 2015 growth target of 7.0% at this week's China's annual "Central Economic Work Conference". ...

Santa came to town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2014
... action (there targeted easing for big banks and agricultural banks) - in the face of slowing China growth means that the Politburo is now willing to tolerate slower China growth. How quickly they forget. They've quickly forgotten that only five months ...

Quo vadis dollar-A?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
... by next year; the ECB could announce QE; the BOJ would continue QQE; and the PBOC (depending on how much slower the Politburo could tolerate slowing growth) could ease.... and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) would keep the official cash rate on ice ...

Volatile like its 2011

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
... data. It's bad... it confirms that China's economy is slowing as feared. Whatever happened to low inflation giving the Politburo and the PBOC scope to stimulate, I wonder, wonder? At the end of the day, the policy responses of 2011 are instructive. When ...

Flatline

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
... significantly change its economic policies because of weakness in a single economic indicator have sparked speculation that the Politburo wouldn't be announcing fresh stimulus, mini or targeted or otherwise. Uh-oh, Mr. Wei could be courting trouble with ...