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Third arrow, broken arrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2014
... crisis, but the end result was the consequent drop in consumer spending and business investment sent the country into a recession and back into deflation. Today's economic dynamics - before and after the consumption tax was raised from 5% to 8% -- are ...

Crime pays: Why new European GDP rules are causing a stir

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... some nations measure illegal activity while others don't. At a time when the EU is struggling to emerge from a deep recession, the new measures are unintentionally providing a welcome boost to economic output. According to Eurostat, the inclusion of ...

UK on the go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2014
... British central bank last 1 July 2013. Yes Virginia, the UK has come a long way baby! From concerns over a double-dip recession about this time last year - the economy contracted for three straight quarters between December 2011 and June 2012 rebounded ...

PROFILE: Invesco CEO Martin Franc

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2014
... Organisation (ASIO). But that plan was soon cast aside following Franc's graduation in the early nineties. Despite the recession, several friends who had finished university a year or two ahead were brimming with excitement about the growth potential ...

Losing shine

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2014
... choose your choice of rationales. The global economy is not going gangbusters but neither is it heading into another recession. The Fed is withdrawing stimulus, engendering renewed trust in fiat money and easing inflation fears. The Bank of Japan is ...

Let's talk about VIX baby

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2014
... didn't. The VIX soared to a reading of 80.86 in November 2008 -- a month after Lehman Bros collapsed and as the Great Recession bit -- dropped to 16.62 by early 2010 aided by the Fed's QE1. The Grexit fears of early 2010 saw the VIX jump to 45.79. QE2 ...

Growth and consequence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2014
... expectations. It's good, it's the fourth straight quarter of positive pick up in the economy after the region's double-dip recession that started in 2008. Yet it's not good enough... not strong enough to reverse the developing deflationary risk in the ...

BOE qualifies for World Cup

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
... risen by 13.1% against the greenback and 7.2% since the lows of July 2013 - the time when speculations of another UK recession were rife. But this, your royal majesty, is the problem. Sterling's strength being already a 'de facto' tightening of monetary ...

Dumping dear momos

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
... bigger-than-expected 32K to its lowest level (300K) since May 2007 - that was 7 months before the US economy officially went into recession. Bloomberg reports that this is better than the most optimistic forecast of the 52 economists it surveyed. Before ...

BOE has a problem to smile about

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
... clamoured for more policy stimulation because (as speculated back then) the UK economy is at risk from falling back into recession. Less than a year into the job - and doing nothing but introducing forward guidance - Mark Carney's presiding over ...