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The price is not right

BENJAMIN ONG | THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2017

... consumer, even stuck my neck out (not to be chopped in time for Thanksgiving, crossed fingers) anticipating stronger US growth momentum. Yes Virginia, I intentionally kept away from talking about inflation for like the Fed, I, too, am in a daze. For ...

Holding pattern

BENJAMIN ONG | THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015

... expanding at a moderate pace, with some further softening in conditions in China and east Asia of late, but stronger US growth". Though some expanded an expansion of QE this month, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) also didn't budge which, like the RBA, saw that ...

Average September on average

BENJAMIN ONG | MONDAY, 29 SEP 2014

... boots about the prospect of a "sooner-rather-than-later" fed funds rate hike only days before, were we not? Stronger US growth may have made that "sooner" well... sooner. An ever so slightly longer term look at US equities points to an average September ...

A-dollar zero point six six

BENJAMIN ONG | TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014

... "oppository". Take the case of the "if the US lifts its rates by mid-2015". The Fed would lift rates in response to stronger US growth - which lifts global growth which lifts demand for commodity prices - and/or rising inflation - which slows growth ...

Reverse contagion

BENJAMIN ONG | WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2011

... a contagion emanating from Europe -- it's easier to see the obvious after all -- but it could also be that stronger US growth that'll spread a reverse contagion.

A QEasy road ahead for investors

JOHN MCDULING | MONDAY, 29 NOV 2010

... Perpetual's head of investment markets research, told Financial Standard that "QEII will do nothing to create stronger US growth" and that the "overall outlook is for modest growth with heightened volatility." He said that austerity would be the best ...

Afternoon market wrap: Local shares extend losses

... been undermined by a sharp sell-off in US bond yields, as bond investors increasingly embrace the prospect of stronger US growth in the second half of the year. Australian bonds were also weaker, despite the prospect that the Australian Bureau of Statistics ...

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