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Chief economist update: The corona crash of 2020

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020
... reading of 75.47 - the highest since the 80.86 reading way back in November 2008 in the aftermath of the collapse of Lehman Bros. News that Tom Hanks and wife Rita tested positive for the coronavirus and Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau and wife ...

Chief economist update: Welcome to the day after tomorrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2020
... telling. It lowered interest rates by 50 basis points to 1%-1.25% -- the first inter-meeting cut since 2008 (when Lehman Bros collapse) - because of the "evolving risks to economic activity" posed by the coronavirus. Wall Street's reaction to the ...

Chief economist update: Famous last words

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2018
... - "The GSEs are adequately capitalised. They are in no danger of failing." And then wham bam thank you ma'am, Lehman Bros. filed for bankruptcy on 15 September 2008, setting off a chain of events that changed the meaning of GFC from Geelong Football ...

The Fed could get it wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2015
... normality let's go back to when it started turning abnormal. September 16, 2008 - Fed FOMC meeting day and the day after Lehman Bros collapsed. Bernanke & Co have already dropped the fed funds rate target from 5.25% in 2007 to a four year-low of 2.0% ...

Greece in crisis (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2015
... the "Greek crisis" episodes of 2010 and 2011 and way, waaay down from the near-90 level hit in late 2008 following Lehman Bros' collapse. Now those were real seismic shifts in fear - not headline-imagined ones.

BOJ in (tactical) retreat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2015
... exchange rate - exchange rate adjusted for inflation and trade with other nations - is back to the levels it was before Lehman Bros' collapse in 2008. To this I say, what the? And why? Wasn't this exactamondo the BOJ's QE's raison d' etre? That is, to ...

Let's talk about VIX baby

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2014
... going to continue going good. But it didn't. The VIX soared to a reading of 80.86 in November 2008 -- a month after Lehman Bros collapsed and as the Great Recession bit -- dropped to 16.62 by early 2010 aided by the Fed's QE1. The Grexit fears of early ...

30 days hath September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2013
... VAT tax debate in Japan and leaking radiated water at the Fukushima nuclear plant, the fifth death anniversary of Lehman Bros...the list goes on.A Add your favourite worry here___. Ha ha ha.A Happy that my positive outlook on the financial markets and ...

Vale William Mahoney

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013
... Australia from 1993 to 1998, before moving into a head of sales role at Bridgwater Associates William also worked for Lehman Bros and Bankers Trust. He departed Bridgewater Associates in 2006 at the age of 48, which enabled him to focus on his wife Alice ...

Serpentine fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2013
... it is "a year of cooling down with more stability and calmness in the stock market". That year was 2008. The year Lehman Bros collapse. The year the S&P 500 index dove by 38.5% and the year that the median price of existing one-family homes in America ...
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