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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
... swift recovery for the faltering economy. Investors in London meanwhile were awaiting the Bank of England's latest monetary policy decision due on Thursday, but most expect the BoE to keep its key lending rate at a record-low 0.50 per cent as weak growth ...

RBA worries not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
... not... if I read GG's statement correctly. "...the Board judged that the current mildly restrictive stance of monetary policy remained appropriate in view of the general macroeconomic outlook." Noticed anything? If at all, monetary policy settings are ...

Bulls take first quarter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
... the prices of food and oil. This will prompt calls for central banks to end quantitative easing and/or tighten monetary policy. Chinese authorities have already tighten and will be tightening some more to prevent their economy from overheating and reverse ...

C'mon, Aussie, c'mon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
... that, "Despite recent improvements to the outlook, we are not yet at that point" when "a change in the stance of monetary policy will be necessary." "Slow progress" in lowering unemployment "and underlying inflation trends that are too low lead me to ...

Commodities rising

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 MAR 2011
... MENA region, the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear incident in Japan and revived worries over Eurozone debt, and monetary policy tightening in emerging economies, led by China. One of these events alone is enough for investors to question the outlook for ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
... still has the potential to affect risk appetite." The Bank of England is due to release minutes for its March Monetary Policy Committee meeting, during which it decided to keep interest rates at 0.5 per cent. Ms Deda said the minutes would be keenly ...

Tightrope walker

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
China's economy is overheating that the People's Bank of China (PBOC) had been tightening monetary policy in order to keep inflation under control. The US economy is not growing fast enough - and measured inflation has, thus far, remained benign - that ...

Three and a half men

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2011
... business spending may be taking hold... The combination of rising household and business confidence, accommodative monetary policy and improving credit conditions seems likely to lead to a somewhat more rapid pace of economic recovery in 2011 than we ...

Hitting a BRIC wall

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... battle inflation." To rein in inflation, the BRICs and other emerging markets have been tightening their respective monetary policy settings as well as erecting barriers to portfolio capital inflows. This is in direct contrast to the very low interest ...

Bad news bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2011
... that we have upside risks to price stability" and therefore, the ECB would "inevitably" need to "rebalance our monetary policy stance". As for China, the question is not when but when again. It again raised borrowing rates on 8 February - the third hike ...