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Drown baby, drown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2016
... between 1999 and 2000." The negative effects of a rising oil price is made more pronounced by economic agents and financial markets anticipating rising inflation which, in turn, leads to monetary policy tightening to quell inflationary pressures - and ...

Japanese consumers a tad more confident

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2016
... consumer confidence survey was conducted in mid-December 2015 - two weeks before the New Year upheaval in the financial markets that persists to this day.

China's January effect

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2016
... readers!... and it looks like we'd be needing more well-wishes of "A Happy and Prosperous New Year!" the way financial markets have panned out at the start of 2016. Equity markets around the globe dropped -- big time -- at the start of the first trading ...

Lesson in expectations management

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
... first rate hike, and likely for subsequent rate hikes, is relatively simple: 1.The Fed does not want to surprise financial markets given the fragility of global macroeconomic conditions. A surprise has the strong potential for generating undesirable ...

The Fed's done it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2015
... hikes on the economy - unemployment rate, inflation, average hourly earnings, consumer confidence - and the financial markets - US dollar, S&P 500 index, MSCI world index - and concluded that, "In truth, little is known about exactly how monetary policy ...

Lift then back to zero (even negative)?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2015
... the economy from significantly overshooting both of our goals. Such an abrupt tightening would risk disrupting financial markets and perhaps even inadvertently push the economy into recession. Moreover, holding the federal funds rate at its current level ...

Three days to lift off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2015
... pressure on inflation - and erode US exporters' competitiveness - downward pressure on growth. And then we have the financial markets: The high yield corporate bond market is taking a hit. Third Avenue Management's high-yield credit fund shut down last ...

PIMCO appoints world leaders to advisory board

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2015
... unrivalled team of macroeconomic thinkers and former policymakers, whose insights into the intersection of policy and financial markets will be a valuable input to our investment process," PIMCO group chief investment officer, Dan Ivascyn, said. "Sharing ...

Default super should have base ESG standard: RIAA

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2015
... conference in Sydney recently, RIAA released the white paper: Driving long-term investment and delivering responsible financial markets - A preliminary paper on industry priorities. It has nine initiatives that will form RIAA's advocacy framework ...

US Fed cleared for lift-off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2015
... rates in 10 days' time. The certainty of a lift-off is made more certain by the absence of tantrums from the financial markets this time - unlike in previous months. Instead, this tantrum that could ensue if the Fed does not deliver.