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Oil price shock, nice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2015
... mentioned in the second para. If he is, then please accept this bald-headed typist's contrition, Mikey. But if not, then so sowee, I'm begging to disagree... vehemently. I've already stated my case many times over in this column on why cheap oil is good ...

So good but for the wrong spin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014
... and expectations of 57.0 ICSC-Goldman's same-store sales - 1.0% in the week ended 28 June versus 2.0% in previous week (sowee but I couldn't find expectations numbers). China official PMI - 51.0 in June versus 50.8 in May and expectations of 51.1. These ...

Steady as she goes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2014
Who said you can't teach new tricks to an old dog? So sowee, I'm not in any way calling dear Aunt Janet Yellen a dog and most certainly not old... it's just that it's the first thing that came to my fast thinning scalp when I was clicking over what ...

First quarter stasis and A$ ADHD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2014
... things about the economy. Couple this with the prospect of "no China slowdown" and boom. I didn't want to belabour the point (sowee) but wasn't it only a month and two days before that the Australian dollar would drop to US$0.66 in 2015? That was when ...

The scares that weren't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
... it's hard to define, but, you know, it probably means something on the order of around six months or that type of thing". Sowee, but at this point I can't help but recall what our very own then Opposition leader and now Prime Minister Tony Abbott said ...

Maybe slowing, definitely distorted, more likely rebalancing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2014
... economic reports out of China have again put a question mark about its economy and by extension, the economy of the world. Oh sowee Virginia, I stand corrected... it wasn't a question mark, China's headed for a certain slowdown, perhaps even a hard landing. ...

When saving goes bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
... But... but, yes, that's right, but that's if revenue remains the same. Hell may freeze over but as sure as night follows day (sowee for the clichA(C)s), revenue would also fall, perhaps even by more than a factor of one. Those 5,000 heads and their families ...

I swear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2014
... words, "I, Janet Yellen, do solemnly swear..." last night. For last night was not a good night. Wall Street dropped. Oh sowee, they didn't drop, they "slumped" (Bloomberg), they "tumbled" (AFR), they "slid" (Reuters), they suffered their largest fall ...

Another 10 bil to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2014
... States."...and St. Louis Fed's James Bullard: "We're not going to make policy based on emerging-market volatility alone." Sowee there's one more...not continuing to taper now when the signs are flashing green would cost the Fed its credibility. Certainly ...

Emerging emerging markets concerns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2014
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