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Good for now worrying for later

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAR 2017
"The February NAB Monthly Business Survey gave back the surprisingly strong gains seen in the previous month..." This was the opening line of the NAB report on business confidence and business conditions for February. How much were given back? Business ...

PBOC does an SNB

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
... devaluation. Looked at in this context, the knee-jerk scares that the skies are falling over China is just that... Johnny Little scares. For sure, Chinese stats have been slowing of late but... by not much. Data released yesterday support this: Retail ...

Chocolate biscuits and animal spirits

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
All is clear again on the Wall Street front. Central bank assurances have silenced the Johnny Littles wailing that the sky is falling. We could only imagine now what would have happened to equity markets and in turn to sentiment and then the economies ...

The scares that weren't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... their furry behinds - if they're followers don't get to them first -- looking back at the scares that weren't. The Johnny Little's were peddling what they peddled best even before 2013 became 2014 - the sky will fall: China would suffer a hard landing ...

A 1987-style crash cometh (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2014
... (telecoms, media, technology) issues did back in 2000... any moment now. And right on cue Virginia, we get the biggest Johnny Little of 'em all, Dr. Marc Faber warning you, I and Irene that, "I think it's very likely that we're seeing, in the next 12 ...

Fearing the unknown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2012
... lost its AAA-rating. All these were extrapolated to 'the sky is falling'. And to this day, we're still waiting. Johnny Little's back again. The elections in France and Greece have injected fresh uncertainty to an already uncertain future for Europe. ...
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