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Chief economist update: Fed fail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 DEC 2018
... developments". For sure and for certain, the Fed's not blind to what's happening in the equity, currency, commodity and bond markets. The S&P 500 index is down 6.2% this year to date, dragging all others with it - the MSCI developed equity index ...

Bonds reward equity investors seeking refuge

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 DEC 2018
... FIIG director of education and research Elizabeth Moran added. "The benchmark three-year Australian Commonwealth Government bond rate is 1.90%, over five years is 2.01% and 10 years is 2.41%," she said. The US fixed income story The US yield curve paints ...

Chief economist update: Tariff man takes Wall Street down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2018
... normalisation efforts as "gradual" but given the reaction in the financial markets (near inversion of the 10-year two-year US bond yield spread - the one that precedes recession) appears to fit more with the definition of aggressive. How aggressive? ...

Chief economist update: Thanks for nothing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2018
... curve isn't yet inverted (which would presage a recession), but as the Fed continues to raise the fed funds rate, long bond yields would fall (amid expectations of receding inflation). Could it be that the Fed has now reached its neutral level of ...

Chief economist update: Super Mario keeps his cool

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
... will be found." But it should be given the threat of contagion to other countries in the single-currency region. Italian bond yields have soared to a four-year high of 3.62% from just 1.98% at the beginning of the year, after Brussels rejected Rome's ...

Chief economist update: Fear and loathing on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2018
Persistent sell orders have put Wall Street's major benchmark indices either in a correction (defined as a 10% drop from the nearest peak) or on the cusp of one: Nasdaq (-11.5%) and Russell 2000 (-15.6%); S&P 500 (-9.4%) and DJIA (-8.4%). The sell-off ...

Investors unfazed by market volatility: Spot poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2018
... autos, chemicals, semi-conductors, luxury goods and even packaging and cloud computing. The global growth slowdown, higher bond yields and oil prices is a challenging backdrop for many asset classes," she said. The most recent spike in the US 10-year ...

Chief economist update: Bull markets don't die of old age

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2018
... Fed's actions. This is underscored by the renewed fall on Wall Street overnight - along with the rise in 10-year US Treasury bond yield and the US dollar index -- following the release of the Fed minutes. These, of course, are inter-related. Rising ...

Chief economist update: When QE turns to QT

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2018
... volatility on Wall Street. Throw a dart into a dartboard of reasons and you'll likely to hit a rational one - rising US bond yields, expectations of a more aggressive Fed, US-China trade war, slowing global growth momentum, emerging market rout ...

Chief economist update: Blame and trim

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2018
Trump blamed the Fed for last week's heightened volatility on Wall Street and I agreed that he was correct when he ranted that, "The Fed is going loco and there's no reason for them to do it." This is because - as I wrote last Friday - America's ...