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OMTs - one year on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
... sovereign debt crisis by bringing bond yields (borrowing costs) down through "outright" ECB purchases of bonds issued by euro area members in the secondary sovereign bond markets. A real shame Virginia because a year on, the ECB increasingly looks like ...

30 days hath September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2013
... second straight month that the index had been in expansion territory - from 50.3 in the previous month. To be sure, the euro area still has a lotta work to do - not least, the still unemployment rate in the region - but recovering economic activity ...

Growth and QE - will this time be different?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2013
... sequestration. If this laundry list of negatives can't bring the US down, nothing can.A With China's economy stabilising, the euro area no longer in recession, UK growth also just recently revised higher and Japan putting its pedal to the metal, growth ...

Post-Bernanke uncertainty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2013
... performed like this, then the Fed could taper all it wants. Not only this, the latest PMI report indicates that the euro area is expected to emerge from recession in the third quarter. Plus, reports last night show German business confidence improved ...

Greece what?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013
... debts, and its deficits, and its restructurings and privatisations...and the threat of contagion it presented to the euro area of not so long ago. While Greece is still is the news, it's no longer news. No one seems to be worried about Greece these days ...

Lotsa data but no game change (yet)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2013
... 45% chance of an August trim. While we slept, there was good and bad news out of Europe. The bad news: Germany - the euro area's biggest economy - reported that exports dropped by 2.4% in May following a 1.4% fall in the previous month. This is the fastest ...

A lesson against austerity

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2013
... it'll send the message that Europe is one with America's reflationary effort. Not only that, member governments in the euro area are reportedly slowly coming round to the realisation that lesser austerity may not be that bad after all. Especially after ...

Don't be disappointed if the ECB disappoints

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2013
... The continuing recession in the region, the dreadful lead from the Eurozone PMI indices and last night's disappointing euro area economic confidence in April make it even more likely that Santa Draghi's gift of glee is in the bag. Or is it? Why? What's ...

Flip flop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2012
... Hopeful that Greece would get another euro cent dropped into its begging bowl one day (and from a broader perspective the euro area will do a Humpty Dumpty), nah it's not the next and... although it's become lesser of a concern these days, there's still ...

Giving thanks to thanksgiving

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2012
... quickly. But they might as well be seen as buy ops. Unless of course, the US heads down the cliff, China lands hard or the euro area implodes.