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It's raining jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2015
... markets are now saying the Fed's mid-year lift-off is back on track. But as Jon Hilsenrath writes in the 'Wall Street Journal' (WSJ), "The strong January jobs report increases the odds, but doesn't guarantee, that they will drop the "patient" phrase ...

QEnd is here

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2014
... 5.9% But whatever happened to the Fed worries revealed in the minutes of its September FOMC meeting? As the Wall Street Journal succinctly put it: "Several officials worried at a Sept. 16-17 policy meeting that disappointing growth in Europe, Japan and ...

PIMCO moves to calm investors in wake of 'bond king' exit

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2014
... veteran Daniel Ivascyn has been appointed group chief investment officer following the "bond king's" exit. The Wall Street Journal reported that Ivascyn, who heads up the mortgage credit portfolio management team and is lead portfolio manager for PIMCO's ...

Anticipatory and moderate adjustments had become necessary

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014
... weekend. I'll let the headlines do the talking: China Industrial Production Growth Slumps to Six-Year Low (Wall Street Journal) China Aug power output falls for first time in 4 years, steel largely flat (Reuters) China Industrial Output And Retail Sales ...

"Considerable time", is it a-changin'?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2014
... Friday. The previous nine-week period of gains occurred between December 1996 and February 1997," printed the Wall Street Journal (WSJ). And in what appears to be sweet surrender, the WSJ's follow-up article this morning explains why: "The U.S. economy ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014
... cent annual target. It also missed the median estimate of 2.2 per cent in a survey of 15 economists by the Wall Street Journal. WELLINGTON - New Zealand's benchmark NZX 50 Index has jumped to a record high after the Reserve Bank signalled a slower pace ...

Goldilocks is back in town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014
... not when - despite last night's good news on housing - the housing market pick up remains tentative as the Wall Street Journal muses: "But details within Tuesday's report raised questions about whether the construction gains will be sustained. Last month's ...

MetLife refocuses on middle classes with direct distribution

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
... Georgia and South Carolina almost as a hybrid digital and human interaction 'clicks and mortar' approach. The Wall Street Journal reported that the new strategy is partly in response to pressure from MetLife shareholders to diversify their reliance away ...

Punishing Putin (harder)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
... hurting Russia without hurting themselves -- and with his popularity rating "now over 80%" according to the Wall Street Journal, I don't expect Putin to submit to these newly imposed sanctions at the same time that I don't expect US and Europe to go ...

A sign from the holy spirit?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014
... undertaking outright open-ended purchases of government bonds of stressed members in the secondary markets. As the Wall Street Journal puts it, "Yield spreads between government bonds of Portugal, Spain and Italy have fallen sharply since then versus ...