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Jobs, jobs, jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAR 2017
... guide, the official US non-farm payrolls report (due out at the end of the week) would prove no deterrent to a Fed interest rate hike at the conclusion of its 14-15 March FOMC meeting. The ADP report showed that employment in the private sector surged ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2016
... "consistently supportive despite global shocks and uncertainties particularly associated with 'Brexit'; the US election; Fed interest rate policy; and China's efforts to deal with a structurally slowing economy". These have been slightly offset by erosions ...

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Noi, noi, noi!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2015
... become even more challenging with slowing growth being compounded by the uncertainty over the timing of the first Fed interest rate hike since 2008 and extreme volatility in China's equity markets - both of which are heightening volatility all around. ...

Gloom and doom news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... devaluation of the yuan (it could devalue again). Developments in China - coupled with speculation over an imminent Fed interest rate hike - are in turn wreaking havoc in emerging markets. China is one of their biggest export markets and a slowdown there ...

Bullish sentiment at 4-year high, expect zero return in six months

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014
So far so good. The men and women of the US Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) must be giving each other high fives (and down lows) at their success. In spite of the daily ups and downs, it appears to they've been able to wean Wall Street off of QE ...

All that jazz, all nonsense

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2014
... July 4th. Though some would have you believe something more sinister and all that jazz are afoot. There's the Fed interest rate hike expectations brought forward following last week's strong jobs data raison d'etre. "The central bank will increase its ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUN 2006
... bond yields rose last night reacting to reports suggesting rising inflationary pressure and therefore, more Fed interest rate hikes. The US bond market reacted to reports that while initial jobless claims increased to 308,000 in the week ended 17 June ...
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