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BOE does what it said it would do

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2017
The Bank of England (BOE) did what it said it would do -- it lifted the Bank Rate by 25 basis points to 0.5% following its 2 November monetary policy council meeting (MPC). The announcement marks the first time in more than a decade that the BOE raised ...

Two holds and a raise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 OCT 2017
... inflation, that ensures that the Fed keeps its word of another rate hike next month. Most interesting would be the Bank of England's (BOE) meeting on 2 November. Unlike America and Japan, the UK's has seen strong growth and above target inflation. But ...

Go ahead BOE, make my day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2017
... and the Japanese yen (and to a two-month high against the strengthening euro). That was on 14 September when the Bank of England (BOE) kept policy unchanged as expected but warned that "...some withdrawal of monetary stimulus is likely to be appropriate ...

India's upside risks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2017
Perhaps the Reserve Bank of India was just following its former colonial master. For similar to the Bank of England (BOE) - it cut interest rates by 25 basis points to 0.25% in August 2016 to head off the potential negative fall-out from Brexit win ...

Transparency to the max

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 SEP 2017
... stability target of 2%, as long as it is necessary for maintaining that target in a stable manner." The same with the Bank Of England (BOE): "...with the further lessening in the trade-off that this would imply, some withdrawal of monetary stimulus is ...

The British pound's sterling reversal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 SEP 2017
... high against the strengthening euro - at the close of last week's trading. And no, it's not because of what the Bank of England (BOE) did at the monetary policy council's 14 September meeting - it kept policy unchanged as expected - but what it told ...

No follow through

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 AUG 2017
Unlike the Bank of Canada (BOC) which he headed from 2008-2013, now Bank of England (BOE) governor Mark Carney didn't follow through on the remarks he made at the European Central Bank Forum in Portugal that, "Some removal of monetary stimulus is likely ...

Inflation matters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUL 2017
In his interview with 'The Independent' earlier this month, the Bank of England's (BOE) MPC external member Gertjan Vlieghe cautioned: "This is an environment where a premature hike would be a bigger mistake than one that turns out to be slightly late." ...

Not showing: inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 JUL 2017
... their 2% target (the People's Bank of China's target is 3.5%). Only the UK's core inflation rate is above the Bank of England's (BOE) target driven by no other than the pound's depreciation since the Brexit vote. But even the BOE consider this as temporary. ...

Data dictates immediate BOE action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2017
... banks' hawkish comments before the RBA meeting. This re-think is none better highlighted than in the case of the Bank of England (BOE). Certainly, if there's any other major central bank that would soon follow the Fed towards normalisation, it would ...