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A tale of two A's

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 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 ...

Carried away by the dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2014

Stagflation is real in Brazil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
... going for 'targeted' easing to try to rekindle credit growth and prevent the economy from undergoing a full-fledged recession. On 20 August, the central bank announced further easing in banks' reserve requirements "with a special emphasis on automobile ...

Easy money to fill in the slack at the Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
... considerable body of research suggests that the behavior of these and other labor market variables has changed since the Great Recession. Along with cyclical influences, significant structural factors have affected the labor market, including the aging ...

RBA to business: release the animal in you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
... that: "Folks in "The Lucky Country' have long been blessed with top-notch monetary policy makers. There has been no recession on the watch of Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Glenn Stevens or under his predecessor, Ian Macfarlane, who served from 1996 ...

Putin pontificates peace

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014
... into account the previous week's upward revision in claims from 289K to 290K - for they remain at levels see before the recession. It's a volatile data that fluctuates from one week to the next anyways. But should this be the start of a rising trend ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014
... central bank cut interest rates for the first time in 15 months, under growing government pressure including warnings of recession from the new finance minister. WELLINGTON - The NZX 50 Index rose 7.707 points, or 0.2 per cent, to 5062.411.

Only the dead have seen the end of war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
... impact." This is bad enough in itself, but even worse when you consider that another big boy - Italy - is already in recession. Its economy shrank in the first and second quarters of this year - down by 0.2% in the June quarter and down by 0.1% in the ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... Italian stock market dropped 2.70 per cent after official data showed the eurozone's third-largest economy slid back into recession in the second quarter. The euro was lower at $1.3355 compared with $1.3375 late in New York on Tuesday. HONG KONG - Asian ...

Independence Day for the US economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
... 2010, the current reading remains far above the 8% rate pre-GFC and even higher than the 10.3% top hit after America's recession in 2001. "Stagnant wages" - you betcha. Average weekly earnings in the private sector came in at 2.0% in the year to June ...