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No board meeting necessary

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2015
Central bank surprises continue. This week started with the People's Bank of China (PBOC) surprising with a weekend announcement that it is lowering both its benchmark one-year lending rate and one-year deposit rate by 25 basis points each to 5.35% ...

Fight or be beggared by the neighbours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2015
... Worries over deflation was also one of the reasons (along with property market slowdown) for the People's Bank of China's (PBOC) surprise rate cut announcement over the weekend. The PBOC cut its benchmark one-year lending rate and one-year deposit rate ...

Easing here, there and everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2015
... "have what they're having", and two days after I typed on this space "and what about China?", the People's Bank of China (PBOC) delivered its own. The PBOC announced that from today, it is cutting banks' reserve requirement ratio (RRR) by 50 bps - the ...

More Australians to invest in China

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2015
... Macquarie, AMP Capital and First State Investments, are predicted initial candidates for RQFII quotas. The People's Bank of China (PBOC) and the RBA have also agreed to create a Sydney-based RMB clearing bank to facilitate RMB-dominated trade settlement. ...

Auld lang syne

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2015
... from 34% when the BOJ first implemented its bond buys in April 2013. And only last November, the People's Bank of China (PBOC) its key interest rates. These could delay the Fed's much-speculated rates-lift off this year, more so given last week's US ...

Sliding oil price would stop the slide in the oil price

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
... inflation environment into outright deflation. This wouldn't be swell. But already, the big central bankers - the ECB, the PBOC and the BOJ - are pre-empting (and are likely to act some more) this from taking hold. And surely, the Fed and the BOE, would ...

Santa came to town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2014
... cheer into our stockings, the other whispering hope of cheerier gifts for one and all. Ho ho ho. The People's Bank of China (PBOC) played St. Nick last Friday, pleasantly surprising financial markets with a gift of a 40 basis point reduction in the benchmark ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2014
... 0751 AEST on Monday, the December share price index futures contract was up 52 points at 5,360. The People's Bank of China (PBOC) on Friday cut its one-year rate for deposits by 0.25 of a percentage point to 2.75 per cent and its one-year lending rate ...

Quo vadis dollar-A?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
... are - the Fed and the BOE would begin lift-off by next year; the ECB could announce QE; the BOJ would continue QQE; and the PBOC (depending on how much slower the Politburo could tolerate slowing growth) could ease.... and the Reserve Bank of Australia ...

Volatile like its 2011

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
... bad... it confirms that China's economy is slowing as feared. Whatever happened to low inflation giving the Politburo and the PBOC scope to stimulate, I wonder, wonder? At the end of the day, the policy responses of 2011 are instructive. When worse became ...