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The real problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
It didn't happen on the night, but it happened last night. That perplexing perverse performance the financial markets gave to the deletion of the word 'patient' in the FOMC statement has gotten less perverse while we slept - the VIX index rose, so did ...

'Patient' Party

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
... to be a "patient party" instead. While there was certainly no panic, anxiety was clearly discernible in the financial markets' performance leading up to the Fed's 17-18 March FOMC meeting as speculation heated on whether or not the word "patient" would ...

A win-win currency war?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
... (er, keyboard). I just found out that there's now a term for the current "patient"-induced volatility in the financial markets. Reuters called (past tense) it "patient panic" in its published article last Friday the 13th. To be pedantic, there might ...

"Patient" is the (key)word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
... closed up 1.3% and the S&P 500 ended 1.4% higher (the biggest gain in five weeks, mind you). Could it be that financial markets now believe my previous rants that lower oil prices are a boon to the economy? But then perhaps, I have to attach "WR" to ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2015
... down 11 points at 5,801. In local economic news on Monday, Reserve Bank of Australia assistant governor for financial markets Guy Debelle is slated to deliver a speech at the KangaNews DCM Summit. The Australian Bureau of Statistics releases new motor ...

The die is cast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2015
... million euros and 50 million euros"... "according to people with knowledge of the transactions". The Eurozone financial markets' response was mixed: The euro closed higher (US$1.0852) versus the greenback after initially dropping to US$1.0823 - its lowest ...

US fiduciary reforms will rock pension funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2015
... ERISA legislation. Lisa Bleier, managing director for public policy and advocacy at the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA), said in a statement released by the association that the move could have a "chilling" effect at call ...

No board meeting necessary

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2015
... its main repurchase rate by 25 bps to 7.5% yesterday. The move followed a similar 25 bps cut in January. While financial markets widely expected the RBI to cut interest rates - as inflation has dropped below the central bank's goal of slowing it down ...

Mind over matter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2015
... and interest rate relativities; trade and current account dynamics, etcetera. I could only surmise that the financial markets' sanguine attitude towards what could be turn out to be a "big even" these coming couple of days is because markets have already ...

Grexit not Greek to Brits

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2015
... something inside my frontal lobes whispering that perhaps Greece is secretly wishing that between now and the 28th, financial markets tank ala the European sovereign debt crisis of recent past - you know the one, the one when any mention of Grexit sent ...