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Christmas in September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2016
... of interest rates for 2017 and 2018, sending the US dollar index down to 95.41 from 95.66 the day before. Santa Yellen's Xmas gift cheered Wall Street though -- the S&P 500 index closed 1.1% higher and the yield on 10-year US bonds down 4 bps to 1.65% ...

December lift-off, yeah, sure

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2015
... night. Given these data, I'm betting my two front teeth that the Fed won't lift in December. If they do, at least I still have Xmas, and that'll be all I want for Xmas... my two front teeth... back.

Not this year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2015
... (threats?) that lift-off is coming. Make no mistake, it is coming but if we continue to get data like these it may not be until Xmas... 2016, that US interest rates would be cleared for lift-off.

Christmas in October

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2015
... promised and actual - sent investors a-carolling last week. More stimulus is on the way! This was ECB boss Mario Draghi's early Xmas present to the markets. The only question is the form - NIRP, increase in the €60 billion per month asset purchases ...

Santa Mario brings cheers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2015
Merry Xmas to you too, signore Draghi Only two days before, most have given up expecting more goodies from "Super 'whatever it takes' Mario". No mas, not after the ECB's Bank Lending Survey showed that QE is doing what's intended to do - ease lending ...

LMCI's portrait of labour market conditions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
... rose by 1.3%; yields on US 10-year bonds increased by 13 basis points to 2.24% -- its highest level since the day before Xmas 2014 and the VIX index jumped by 8.3% to a reading of 15.2 (though this still reads normal palpitation, not fear). You know ...

Oil slide, CEO pay and that "income recession"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2014
... would, in turn, provide income, lift spending and make everybody happy. No siree! They would crucify me... and we have to have Xmas first before easter. But can't blame the head honchos either, they're just playing according to the rules of the game ...

ECB came bearing no pre-Xmas cheer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2014
"Maybe this year, maybe next year, maybe never I'm confessing That I'm guessing all the time." Edna Savage's immortal 1959 classic "Maybe This Year" provides an apt background song heading into last night's European Central Bank (ECB) Governing Council ...

Unwind for Xmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2013
What the fudge! Yes I know gentle readers, most especially dear Canadian gentle reader Mike, today's topic is about that thing I placed my right hand on my left breast vowing not to mention again only a weekend and day ago. How can I not break my vow ...

CB onslaught

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2013
... yet convinced that the Fed lady - Janet Yellen -- has sung the taper song (that there won't be any, at least this side of Xmas)? There's a gabfest of Fed speakers scattered throughout the week. I counted 9 Fed presidents, plus Chairman Ben Bernanke ...
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