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Chief economist update: Fear and loathing on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2018
... consumers spend less). With inflation still not rearing its ugly head, the Fed should consider a pause before things become uglier. Bull markets don't die of old age, the Fed murders them.

100 days of Trump (and counting)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 MAY 2017
... 2.1% in the December 2016 quarter. This is below expectations for a 1.1% expansion and the slowest pace in three years. Uglier still, because the National Accounts show a sharp deceleration in household spending growth - that which makes up around 70% ...

ZIRP to bring back "animal spirits"?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2016
... three months ended December 2015 when they were expected to drop by 3.0% but... they're still not a pretty set of numbers. Uglier still, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), "Estimate 1 for 2016-17 is $82,572m. This is 19.5% lower ...

I cut, you cut, I cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2015
... attractive? That, at least, is the hope. Lowering interest rates some more, the RBA hopes, would make the Australian dollar uglier to foreign investors and drive their amorous intentions (yeah, I Know Valentine's Day long over) to other prettier legal ...

Fear not the fugly jobs report

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2014

Not ugly enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
... for they all saw that it wasn't good. Employment increased by only 80,000 in June versus expectations for a gain of 100K. Uglier, net revisions for April and May showed 1,000 less heads employed than earlier estimated. Ugliest, employment growth in the ...

Still a guessing game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2012
... work in her mines. And it's also better for the RBA to keep its powder dry just in case the financial markets get even uglier. But... but, there's a lag in the transmission mechanism of monetary policy, today's action will not flow through until at least ...

USA no longer AAA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
... market declines of up to 70%." You should start to worry if you believe in your heart of hearts that we'll see America print uglier stats than the one above. In this environment anything is possible, but at this point in time it's a long shot - a very ...

Cry of the banshee

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2011
... gain of 54,000 - yes I called it U-G-L-Y last month - was more than halved to show employment increased by only 25,000. Uglier than ugly? Or that the unemployment rate has gone the wrong way - it rose to 9.2% in June from 9.1% the month before -- despite ...

U-G-L-Y

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2011
... Just look at the stats. US total payrolls increased by only 54,000 heads last month. It's one big ugly disappointment. Uglier still because it failed to live up to already lowered expectations. Financial markets initially expected jobs to grow by 210K ...
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