Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 91 - 100 of 628 results for "European Central Bank"

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 ...

The growth-inflation divide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2017
... expectations have remained in a weakening phase" and even lowered its FY projection to 1.4% from 1.5%. The European Central Bank's (ECB) policy decision, assessment and outlook were almost identical that you only have to replace BOJ with ECB in the preceding ...

The prescience of Super Mario

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2017
Rising momentum in the Eurozone economy have triggered speculations that the European Central Bank (ECB) would not only taper its QE programme soon but also lift interest rates by the first quarter of 2018. The problem with this is that stronger economic ...

ECB nips the bud of rate hike speculations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAR 2017
... continued sprouting of green shoots in the Eurozone economy has recently triggered speculations that the European Central Bank (ECB) would soon taper its policy accommodation measures soon. While the Governing Council voted to keep monetary policy settings ...

Labour costs rising

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2017
In its 9 March statement, the European Central Bank (ECB) stated that, "A very substantial degree of monetary accommodation is still needed for underlying inflation pressures to build up and support headline inflation in the medium term". However, if ...