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CB thoughts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
... facility to domestic institutions. Emergency meeting? That spells trouble to me! The Bank of England's latest monetary policy decision - it kept interest rates unchanged at 0.5 per cent and maintained its emergency bond purchase plan - could perhaps ...

A friend like Ben

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2010
... "The Federal Reserve is already supporting the economic recovery by maintaining an extraordinarily accommodative monetary policy, using multiple tools." Big Ben revealed other stimulus options available at its disposal if required. "Notwithstanding the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 AUG 2010
... Kan and Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa, and speculation has heightened that the central bank may ease monetary policy further ahead of the meeting. The benchmark Nikkei gained 122.14 points to 9,362.68, while the broader Topix rose 1.1 per ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2010
... closed up 0.47 per cent after July's inflation data largely met expectations, easing concerns about potential monetary policy tightening, dealers said. The Shanghai Composite Index was up 12.22 points at 2,607.50 on turnover of 88.8 billion yuan ($A14.33 ...

Inflation no show

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUL 2010
... surprisingly lower-than-expected Australian inflation figures. I don't know about you but is central banking and monetary policy really as simple as this? I remember waking up to news yesterday morning with one talking head saying that if the CPI numbers ...

Wall Street takes a dive

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2010
... "the economic outlook remains unusually uncertain." The printed text of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's Semi-annual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress contained 19 paragraphs and 2,419 words. How and why on earth did financial markets zero in on these ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2010
... weakened. Stocks traded near the flatline just before Dr Bernanke began his half-yearly testimony to Congress on monetary policy, but quickly headed south as he began to address the Senate Banking Committee. "The economic outlook remains unusually uncertain," ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2010
... futures contract had risen 19 points to 4,347 points, with 13,804 contracts traded. The minutes of the latest monetary policy meeting of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) on July 6, which were released on Tuesday, show that inflation figures due on ...

Waiting to see

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2010
... Street's performance overnight - coming at a time when the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) announced its monetary policy decision and the Census Bureau reporting new home sales collapse to the their lowest level on record --highlights the continued ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2010
... points at 4,531. In economic news on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia releases the minutes of its June 1 monetary policy meeting and interest rate decision. The RBA also releases credit/debit card data for April. RBA deputy governor Ric Battellino ...