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ECB exit: 2018 or 2021?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2017
... amid diminished political risk and policy uncertainty". This is based on the IMF's assumption that the "European Central Bank should wait for concrete evidence of a steady pickup in inflation before reducing the extent of accommodation". The IMF predicts ...

Euro strength is a source of weakness

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 SEP 2017
It didn't happen overnight, but it did happen. European Central Bank president Mario Draghi's concern over the impact of the euro currency's appreciation, that is. Recall that the ECB had been conspicuous in its silence about the euro since its 20 July ...

ECB disengages from currency war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2017
... US dollar so far this year - more than the A$ (up 9.4%), the NZ$ (up 5.4%) and the rupee (5.9%). Yet, the European Central Bank (ECB) and its president Mario Draghi have so far been conspicuous in not voicing out their trepidation over the euro's sharp ...

No follow through

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 AUG 2017
... 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 to become necessary if the trade-off facing the MPC ...

Data dictates immediate BOE action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2017
... their expectations for policy normalisation in the UK especially after Governor Mark Carney's remarks at the European Central Bank Forum in Portugal. The one where Carney declared that, "Some removal of monetary stimulus is likely to become necessary ...

Good oil, bad oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUN 2017
... decline in oil prices persist, central banks will have a problem (an inflation problem) - supporting the European Central Bank's (ECB) concern over the durability and sustainability of accelerating growth in consumer prices while at the same time putting ...

Eurozone gaining momentum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2017
... improving macro dynamics in the US economy. No surprises too that financial markets are speculating that the European Central Bank (ECB) would follow suit...and soon. After all the Eurozone economy's gaining momentum. GDP growth accelerated to 1.9% in ...

Just what the doctor ordered

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2017
... exports and lift repatriated earnings (when converted into the local currency). The exact same thing the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan are trying to engineer with their own legal tenders but sans the "unconventional monetary policies" they ...

Eurozone ascending

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2017
If Monsieur Benoit Coeure's - member of the executive board of the European Central Bank (ECB) - recent comments are any indication, don't expect any changes in ECB monetary policy settings anytime soon. Coure told his audience at a conference at the ...

APRA announces promotions, new hires

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAY 2017
... APRA in 2011 from HM Treasury in the UK, where he was a senior policy adviser. Current deputy head of the European Central Bank's financial regulation division Jane O'Doherty will also join APRA as the lead of a new combined governance, operational and ...