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Treats not threats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2012
... the foul stench of weak US corporate earnings, Greece and Spain in Europe, Europe's recession and anticipation of a hard landing in China which is dragging the rest of Asia (and Australia). But a haunting wouldn't be complete sans Nouriel 'Dr. Doom' ...

Time to buy the bad news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2012
... and China - take your pick from the latest forecasts by the WB, the ADB and the IMF and I don't think you'll find a hard landing anywhere in their numbers. The 7.7% Chinese GDP growth the WB and the ADB (7.8% for the IMF) predict for this year is even ...

Data deluge delivers no clearer visibility

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2012
... previous estimate of 8.5% before growing at 8.1% in 2013 (also a reduction from the 8.7% it predicted previously. Not a hard landing but a slowing China affects Asia. The ADB now predicts growth in this region to come in at 6.1% this year (down from ...

They will or they won't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012
... Fed could also do nothing. Speaking of forecasts, predictions for the Chinese economy have turned towards the "no hard landing", "stimulus is working" side again. This, after the People's Bank of China (PBOC) reported that new lending jumped to 703.9 ...

100% world recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2012
... be littered with negative stories about the European sovereign debt crisis, the limping growth in America and/or a hard landing in China, the indicator of fear in the financial markets - the VIX index - has actually fallen from a high of 26.66 on the ...

Known knowns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2012
... the beginning of the year. Financial markets are already trading on known knowns. Euro disintegration? Check. China hard landing? Check. Limping US economy. Check and check and heck, financial markets have even blown these scares out of proportion. Don't ...

Playing with a loaded dice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2012
... off guard. But this ones -- the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis and recession and potential dismemberment, the China hard landing story and slowing emerging market growth, the sluggishly growing US economy and heck, even its upcoming fall into a fiscal ...

Wen's visible hand

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2012
Where are they now? Those hard landing-ers? Wall Streets and European equities jumped 1.7% and 1.4%, respectively - on the final day of last week's trading as markets welcomed news that China's economy slowed "as expected" to 7.6% in the year to the ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2012
... slowed in line with expectations, quashing fears data would show a "doomsday" scenario of the country heading for a hard landing. Hong Kong closed up 0.35 per cent, or 67.52 points, at 19,092.63 on Friday, while Shanghai was flat, edging up 0.02 per ...

Uncertainly good or bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2012
... in June from 12.7% in the previous month - more than half the expected 12.7% gain (yes, similar to May's tally). Hard landing, here we come. Like every other time that China reports a bad stat, some hard landing-ers go full blast and extrapolate it to ...