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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.

IMF - It Means Fun

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
... 24 January 2012. On 24 January the IMF warned that, "The global recovery is threatened by intensifying strains in the euro area and fragilities elsewhere. Financial conditions have deteriorated, growth prospects have dimmed, and downside risks have escalated," ...

The pain in Spain does not fall mainly on the plain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
... approved by Madrid -- it reverberates up to that overriding issue of unity within the Eurozone. It makes a mockery of the euro area's work-in-progress towards greater fiscal union. No Virginia, the rain in Spain does not fall mainly on the plain. As ...