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Christmas in October

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2015
"You better watch out You better not cry You better not pout I'm telling you why..." Central banks are coming to town - and they've loaded lots of toys and goodies on their sleigh. Back to back central bank stimulus measure surprises - promised and ...

WBC rate lift pressures RBA rate cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2015
... maintained the status quo. Reduced betting on a 2015 rate hike has taken the A$ above US$0.73 in recent days. But as Bank of America Merrill Lynch chief economist Saul Eslake commented last April, "Albert Einstein is supposed to have said the definition ...

Expect slow "boil" Fed hikes: Hamish Douglass

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
... speed after they start hiking interest rates. The reason I say that is because there are $10 trillion worth of deposits in America that for seven years have been bearing no interest. That's financial repression on a grand scale. "I suspect there will ...

Asia: Between fortune and fate

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... is unique: "There is strong innovation in Asia, there is no comparison to other so-called emerging markets like Latin America or Eastern Europe. The only market as interesting is the United States, but the US is a developed market, it is well understood ...

Budget for uncertainty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... Telstra Corporation Ltd is a first-class dividend stock". I could only surmise that it's the uncertainty surrounding the great reveal of Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey's second Budget (or is it Social Services Minister Scott Morrison's first?). Prime Minister ...

My QE, your problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015
... mind, it already had its day in the sun. Besides, the ECB's money drop is intended to drop over the Eurozone, not for America. And drop it did. The ECB announcement sent the euro plummeting below US$1.10 - the lowest since September 2003 (when it was ...

So sure it's certain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2015
... trillion (no, can't do with thousands or millions anymore) question remains, would QE work for the eurozone as it did for America?

Are we there now?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2014
Yo momma! We're there now. The US Bureau of Labor Statictics' (BLS) latest update on America's employment situation - the momma of all eco stats - indicates that the economy is no longer mending, but that... it has mended. I refer not only to the much ...

Independence Day for the US economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
... 17.1% back in 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 ...

So good but for the wrong spin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014
The sun is shining, the sky is blue and the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker appears to have celebrated America's 'Independence Day' three-days early. You'd be jingling your bells and singing hallelujah too, Virginia, when you look at what ...