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BRIC slows on Europe woes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2012
... volatility have undoubtedly contributed to this malaise, this slowing is also due to the lagged effects of the severe monetary policy tightening the BRIC's central banks implemented over the past two years to try and contain surging inflation in their ...

Greece chooses pain to pain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2012
... IMF? For these we'll have to wait after the conclusion of the G-20 meeting and after the US Federal Reserve's monetary policy deliberation this week.

Still a guessing game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2012
... just in case the financial markets get even uglier. But... but, there's a lag in the transmission mechanism of monetary policy, today's action will not flow through until at least six months from now. By then, it might be too late. Cut interest rates ...

Show me the stats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2012
... Wen announced - nay, commanded - that "We should continue to implement a proactive fiscal policy and a prudent monetary policy, while giving more priority to maintaining growth." Still, sentiment could as quickly turn with a tweet announcing a reversal ...

Missed the bottom?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2012
... with Premier Wen Jiabao announcing that, "We should continue to implement a proactive fiscal policy and a prudent monetary policy while giving more priority to maintaining growth." The word "prudent" as we now know is the Chinese translation for "stimulative". ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2012
... as eurozone fears resurfaced. The ECB said it has no immediate plans to increase stimulus and said it may halt monetary policy operations to certain Greek banks." HONG KONG - Asian markets fell and the euro fell to a new four-month low on news Greece ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012
... points at 4,414. In economic news on Friday, the Reserve Bank of Australia is scheduled to release its Statement on Monetary Policy following its cutting of the official interest rate by 50 basis points on Tuesday. In equities news, the first directions ...

Stay or stay away this May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2012
... more rate reductions going forward. We'll get more clues on this on Friday when the RBA releases its Statement on Monetary Policy. And it may well be for more and more if Governor Glen believes Treasurer Swan's self-congratulatory statement that the ...

What price surplus?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2012
... far The expected RBA interest rate cut could help reverse some of this but with the banks short-circuiting the monetary policy transmission mechanism (ANZ has just lifted its lending rates), it would be small beer. I - While there are still a lotta investments ...

Best friends forever

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012
... long speech before the Money Marketeers of New York University in New York, New York on "The Economic Outlook and Monetary Policy, Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Janet Yellen told her audience that while she expects "the economic recovery to continue--indeed ...