The trade war grows apace. While both sides are trying for soft blows to send “we won’t let foreigners tell us what to do” to the domestic market, and “it’s not too serious, so don’t escalate, ok?” to the foreign market, it’s only a matter of time before the Great Deflation that is 2010 results ...

“Captain’ ;s log, supplemental, Stardate 2010.02.05.Our encounter with the alien life form known as the PIIGS has taken nearly seven months off our painful progress upwards. Our mission to Dow 36,000 and STI 3,600 is now at serious risk of failure. Engineering is attempting to fix the hull breach from the photon torpedos that have hit ...

What’s the world coming to? Civil servants working for RBS Coutts in Singapore are walking out because of the lack of bonus prospects! What next? A strike by the meter maids?This from Reuters:Third of staff at RBS Coutts Singapore quitLack of bonuses prospects said to be a factorA third of the staff of the Singapore ...

Readers are going to be seeing a lot of numbers and interpretations coming out over the next few days on what the September trade numbers actually mean. As far as I can tell, we’re seeing another data point to support the “We’re recovering because we’re getting worse at a slower rate” theory.From the BT:Singapore’s key ...