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Reversal of fortunes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2015
... hallelujah. And why? And why is because as I've scribbled on this space back on 26 August, "It's the Fed, stupid" (http://www.financialstandard.com.au/news/view/52582223). "...we are barking at the wrong tree." I was referring to China. "The tree is ...

NIRP before lift-off?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2015
... perhaps even December... perhaps not until 2017. Last 21 August, I asked on this space, "Should the Fed re-launch QE?" (http://www.financialstandard.com.au/news/view/52472754) arguing that the ills we were seeing at the time were due lift-off speculations ...

So bad it could only be good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
... Economist' magazine explains in its 7 September blog titled, "How China's cash injections add up to quantitative squeezing" (http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2015/09/china-s-economy), the PBOC's balance sheet has been declining as a percentage ...

Best Practice Managed Accounts Forum 2015 registrations open

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2015
... advisers can read the latest news and research on managed accounts through Financial Standard's dedicated online magazine,A www.fsmanagedaccounts.com.au.

It's the Fed, stupid

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... expectations of a Fed lift-off. I've already discussed this last week on this space -- Should the Fed re-launch QE? (http://www.financialstandard.com.au/news/view/52472754). I'd like to add here that it was the weak US dollar and low US interest rates ...

Should the Fed re-launch QE?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015
... this space back then that, "This over-emphasis in the change in semantics is laughable, if not outright stupid..." (http://www.financialstandard.com.au/news/view/51858182) "The Fed's move remains data dependent" The just-released minutes of the same ...

Too much ado about a speck

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2015
... happened... yesterday. That thing I mused about exactly five months ago -12 March 2015 - China devalued its currency. (http://www.financialstandard.com.au/news/view/48312386) "It is perhaps still too early for QE, after all, the PBOC's recent policy ...

September -- morn or mourn?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
... highlighted by this piece in the 'Australian Financial Review' (AFR), "Beware the rate rise that kills off bull markets". http://www.afr.com/markets/beware-the-rate-rise-that-kills-off-bull-markets-20150804-girqop#ixzz3hyZiO4U7 "According to Perpetual ...

RBNZ tries to turn the turn in NZ economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2015
... "there just doesn't seem to be the necessary economic momentum in the domestic economy to warrant a strong AUD". (https://www.poundsterlinglive.com/nzd/1978-australian-dollar-and-nz-dollar-parity-forecast-45435) "Apart from larger population and a bloated ...

Temporary trial separation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2015