Category Archive: Market

The Oil Story Continued : Where Is The Pain ?

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The beautiful and wonder of owning a natural resource is that it will always be yours, unless it is perishable. And the beauty of owning a non renewable form of natural resource is… Continue reading →

The Oil Story : To 2020 and Beyond

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Lucky me. Instead of reading through volumes of oil reports, I got an invitation to a presentation by the experts from Norway, who talked me through the entire story complete with numbers and… Continue reading →

FX Thoughts : A New Era of Megalomaniac Central Bankers

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Uses of QE : cures unemployment cures deflation cures recession CANNOT CURE EBOLA   Bernanke proved he had more celebrity power than all the world leaders combined and Yellen was widely heralded to… Continue reading →

Ad Hoc Commentary – Republican captures senate, Yellen’s honeymoon inflection point

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Nearly a year ago, yours truly wrote: “…the impact of USD loan payback will dominate over the next two years. This will give Janet Yellen the honeymoon in the first two years of… Continue reading →

Safest Banks and Strongest Banks, What Happened To Stanchart Can Happen Anywhere

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Coming across the 2014 Safest Banks award published by Global Finance and Bloomberg’s 2014 Strongest Banks rankings, I came to realise how lame they were. If you go back through the years, you… Continue reading →

Equity Monday : Sell On Sunspots And On Full Moons

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This may sound crazy …. but I can assure you it is not a case of boredom on my part or a display of wild eccentricity for I did a juxtaposition of the… Continue reading →

FX Thoughts : It’s Not Over Till The Fed Lady Hikes

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There has been 2 game changers and another one slated for this Thursday where the ECB is expected to do something drastic or face the displeasure and wrath of the markets. Yet the… Continue reading →

China Focus : Imploding From Within

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This comes a bit late… China is taking a back seat these days even as CNH continues to lag the CNY as the world disapproves of 7.2% growth, the new estimate from another… Continue reading →

Australia Focus : Thank You BoJ, No Thank You Fed !

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Yes. Thank you BoJ, Kuroda, GPIF, Aso and Abe. If you want to know what is the shape of things to come, just take a look at the relative performances of the various… Continue reading →

Bonds In Conversation : Sure Win 4 You Game Changers

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Apologies for the late report and prices this week. I had some trouble with my PC. 10 Singaporeans and another 4 foreigners from China and Hong Kong have lodged reports with the Commercial… Continue reading →