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RBA envy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2016
... again, that the RBA has done what the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of Japan (BOJ) - with their quantitative easing and negative interest rates -- could only aspire to... a lower currency to boost growth and defeat deflation. Perhaps, like ...

Further monetary stimulus risks woeful asset returns

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2016
... Milligan suggests. "Policy makers around the world are debating whether the normal rules of interest rates and quantitative easing have come to an end," he continued. "Of course monetary policy can do more but if it is going to we need to start worrying ...

BoJ now top 10 shareholder in 200 stocks

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2016
... by the end of 2017. The BoJ has been left with little choice but to invest in stocks having already pursued quantitative easing via bond purchases and also negative interest rates. "To critics already wary of the central bank's outsized impact on the ...

Look up in the sky, it's the yen

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2016
... Japanese government and the Bank of Japan (BOJ). Despite the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) latest policy initiative - termed "Quantitative and Qualitative (QQE) Monetary Easing with a Negative Interest Rate" - announced following its 28-29 January Board meeting ...

Janet's words stronger than BOJ and ECB bazookas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2016
Quantitative easing. Negative interest rates. Quantitative and Qualitative easing with a negative interest rate. All of the above plus promises of more. The European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) big bazookas proved no match for US ...

A "chilling" moment for the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 FEB 2016
... It has become necessary given that its first foray into negative interest rates - expanding qualitative and quantitative easing into "quantitative and qualitative easing with a negative interest rate" - flopped. The yen rose and the Nikkei-225 index ...

Lack of scaleability curbs hedge fund appeal

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2016
... hedge funds, or associated alternatives strategies, offer - something made even more crucial given how the Quantitative Easing programs in the US have distorted the normal dynamics of the global fixed interest markets. "There is still a profound need ...

More negatives

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2016
... power. Yes Virginia, we all know why... that all too familiar, it's gotten so bad that more money is coming. "Quantitative easing; zero interest rate policy (ZIRP); quantitative and qualitative easing; "quantitative and qualitative easing with a negative ...

BOJ goes negative to get postive

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2016
... Move over QE and QQE (you too, Operation Twist), we have a new policy measure lexicon in town - and its name is "Quantitative and Qualitative Easing with a Negative Interest Rate". The BOJ left its QQE programme at the current level of ¥80 trillion ...

Fed's plan slips on oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2016
... normalisation at best. At worst, Bridgewater Associate Ray Dalio thinks the Fed's next move would be to bring back quantitative easing. This is bad because it would highlight the Fed's misreading of the economy and therefore, put into question its credibility. ...