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EU action has done little but buy time: Aberdeen

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2012
... story - it's a political one," Griffiths said. The only reason the UK is triple-A rated is due to control over monetary policy and currency, said Griffiths, referring to a conversation with a ratings agency on the debt levels currently carried by the ...

Better days are getting happier

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2012
... explained in the document's concluding paragraph: "The bigger question is, can unprecedented, concerted global monetary policy action repeal the business cycle? The objective coincident and leading indexes that we have always monitored are still telling ...

Upside surprises to surprise on the upside

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2012
... likelihood for upside surprises to surprise on the upside. Let us count the ways: No surprises that the Fed kept monetary policy steady and its pledge to keep rates at "exceptionally low levels for the federal funds rate at least through late 2014... ...

Wen Confucius meets Sun Tzu

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2012
... Wen was also quoted repeating the government's intent to maintain a "proactive" fiscal policy and a "prudent" monetary policy. And we know that "prudent" in Chinese means "stimulatory". Proof, the PBOC started lowering the reserve requirement ratio when ...

Global govt bonds downgrade: Towers Watson

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2012
... research indicates that in the next year bond yields and risk premiums will be kept low by deleveraging and easy monetary policy but that in the medium-term there is likely to be a stronger and faster cyclical recovery than most intermediate bond markets ...

Better and better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2012
... on a Saudi Arabian pipeline. We already know what this means for disposable income, input costs, inflation and monetary policy. But nah, couldn't use them this time -- perhaps tomorrow they can dig them back up when the equity markets zig instead of ...

Austerity's political pay-off

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 FEB 2012
... stimulus at the problem in 2008 to deal with the crisis but now we don't have any more fiscal policy to spend, monetary policy has been tapped out." "We have to rebuild the ammunition magazine for government policy and unless there's a major structural ...

No more fear - maybe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2012
... this does to disposable income, the cost of production, inflation and by extension, its braking effect for more monetary policy stimulation. And then there's Factor X - whatever that may turn out to be. Remember Murphy's Law. However, the flow of better ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 FEB 2012
... bailout, allowing the debt-crippled country to avoid defaulting on its debts next month. A surprise easing in monetary policy in China over the weekend also added to the buoyant mood in markets on Monday - many stock indexes are trading at multi-month ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012
... early losses to close up 0.59 per cent, or 52.89 points, at 9,052.07, after the central bank said it was easing monetary policy by pumping an extra Y10 trillion ($A120.35 billion) into an asset purchase program, aimed at battling the deflation that has ...