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Central bank surprises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2015
... the Swiss National Bank (SNB) stomp the CHF1.20/euro line in the sand it drew way back in September 2011 and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) lower its key interest rates last week. This week opened with the Danmarks Nationalbank - Denmark's central bank ...

That other surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2015
... negative interest rates to even more negative. It also overshadowed another unexpected central bank policy move. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cut its key interest rates by 25 bps each - the repo rate to 7.75%, the reverse repo rate to 6.75%, the marginal ...

Oil price shock, nice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2015
... macro economy. What happened then? What happened is escalating oil prices cured escalating oil prices. The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta's paper on the "Oil Shock of 1978-79" concludes that: "Eventually, slowing economic activity in industrial countries ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2014
... fell from 50.8 in October to 50.3 in November, the weakest level since March. In local economic news on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia holds its monthly board meeting and makes its interest rate decision. The Australian Bureau of Statistics releases ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2014
... the December share price index futures contract was down 44 points at 5,294. In local economic news on Monday, the Reserve Bank of Australia releases the index of commodity prices for November while the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases business ...

Cash rate more likely to fall than rise: PIMCO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is more likely to cut the cash rate than raise it in 2015, according to PIMCO head of portfolio management in Australia Robert Mead. While Mead said the most likely scenario in 2015 is that rates will stay where they ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
... CAC 40 0.20 per cent higher but London's FTSE down 100 index 0.09 per cent. In local economic news on Friday, the Reserve Bank of Australia releases October financial aggregates data. The FeTech magnetite and iron ore conference continues in Perth. In ...

Don't rule out another rate cut: AllianceBernstein

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2014
The Reserve Bank is increasingly likely to defy consensus and cut the official cash rate in 2015, according to global asset manager AllianceBernstein. Consensus expectations of a 2015 rate rise are based on the assumption that a downturn in resources ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
... points at 5,351. In local economic news on Tuesday, the ANZ-Roy Morgan weekly consumer confidence survey comes out Reserve Bank of Australia deputy governor Philip Lowe is scheduled to speak at the annual Australian Business Economists conference dinner ...

Quo vadis dollar-A?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
... QQE; and the PBOC (depending on how much slower the Politburo could tolerate slowing growth) could ease.... and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) would keep the official cash rate on ice "until 2016". I placed quotation marks on "until 2016" cause ...