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Dimon 'cautiously pessimistic' on US economy

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2025
... levels, JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon is "cautiously pessimistic" about the US economy in 2025. Dimon said in a CBS interview that geopolitical tensions underpin his stance in the face of the US reporting GDP levels that were equivalent ...

We've got the power and firepower (still)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2016
... over central banks' firepower and ability to influence market moods and outcomes, the events of the past week showed that CBs are anything but powerless. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand's (RNBZ) unexpected 25 basis point reduction that took the official ...

Good or bad, it's all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
... possible time" through QQE (quantitative and qualitative easing). The going is getting a little less tougher but the tough (CBs) are still going.

Easy CBs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2014
Ho-hum. Two minutes and a policy announcement and what have we got? More of the same - the same pledge, promise, commitment, indication that the world's biggest lenders of last resort would keep lending... at cheap as chips rates. Wall Street's happy.A ...

CB onslaught

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2013
... yet' remarks. We'll be up to our ears on central banks the entire week. But underneath the sensationalist headline spins, the CBs would be singing the same old songs.

OMTs - one year on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
... total accounting for that." It has become even more so after Syrian president Assad gave Uncle Sam the one finger salute in a CBS TV interview and dared it to "go ahead, punk, make my day!" "You're going to pay the price if you're not wise. There are ...

Follow the money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013
... that they started selling gold the metal. You, I and Irene would have been burned to crisp if we insisted in buying what the CBs were selling back then. Back then gold, was just a shiny metal to the CBs - it was what they termed, a "non-appreciating ...

Maybe next month

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2012
... economic fundamentals remain tepid at best, deteriorating at worst, and not prepared to exit completely lest we miss out if the CBs spring a kinder surprise. Greed and fear at their best! Speaking of surprises, expect none from the Reserve Bank of Australia ...

Keynes & Riccardo on display

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2012
Financial markets sit and wait while the CBs meet. No one wants to be whipsawed either way. Not even the headlines... if anybody noticed. There is not the usual sensationalism that goes with each daily move in the markets - dragging out all the negative ...

Never wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2011
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