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Considerable time to eliminate considerable slack

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
... when she spoke before the national conference on community reinvestment in Chicago and that, "The scars from the Great Recession remain, and reaching our goals will take time" - even citing "real people behind the statistics". "Large numbers of partly ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
... Fed would maintain its extraordinary measures until the jobless rate fell a lot more. "The recovery still feels like a recession to many Americans, and it also looks that way in some economic statistics," she said. in which she underlined that unemployment ...

The waiting game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2014
... to 8% -- the first since it was raised from 3% to 5% in 1997. Yup, that one that many thought returned the economy to recession and deflation and claimed the scalp of then Prime Minister Hashimoto. Could be different this time. Japan's raised consumption ...

BRICs without BRI

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014
... just been booted out of the G8 and -- depending on how much more sanctions the G7 impose on Putin -- could fall into a recession. Then again, Russia didn't need any push... it was already headed down the recession path. Russia only avoided the technical ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
... unemployment benefits rose 5,000 last week to a seasonally-adjusted 320,000, the Labor Department said. That's close to pre-recession levels and suggests a stable job market. Locally, no major economic or equities news is expected on Friday. The Australian ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014
... after data confirming the Italian economy returned to growth in the fourth quarter last year after its longest post-war recession of more than two years. The euro slid to $US1.3862 from $US1.3875 late in New York on Monday. HONG KONG - Asia's markets ...

Bottoms up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014
This week, this month, this year marked the fifth anniversary since US equities bottomed on 9 March 2009. The US subprime mortgage crisis that morphed into what is now termed as the global financial crisis sparked market volatility and heightened investor ...

Never good enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2014
... contributed 0.4 percentage points. Then again, so what if it's just exports? Recall the phrase, "exporting its way out of recession"? Japan's doing it right here, right now. The intermittent currency wars (not only after the GFC) were intended to do ...

When saving goes bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
... 11.1% in the September quarter of 2013). The last time it was near these levels was in 1990 (that preceded the 1991 recession) a and in 1985 (Australia escaped the technical definition of a recession back then only because a positive March quarter 1986 ...

Oh what a feelin'

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2014
... Bachelor of Economics. The reactions are equally expected! What happens now? Australia's doomed! We're heading for a recession! The same reactions we saw when Ford announced its exit... then Holden... and now, Toyota. My tit for their gloomy tat is the ...