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Stuck at zero

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2009
... and investment institutions were overleveraged. This time, USA Inc. is. At the time, there was scope for easing monetary policy. And even that was not enough. This time, no mas. If USA Inc needs more stimulation, all it can do now is issue more Treasuries ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2009
... the Fed announcement and then saw choppy action after the central bank offered no surprises in its outlook or monetary policy. The policymaking Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), headed by Fed chairman Ben Bernanke, said after a two-day meeting that ...

Trick or treat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2009
... Street remains a bad dream. And two, because we have to wait until the morrow to know if our RBA tightens the monetary policy screws by just 25 or 50 basis points. But wait! For a historical context, the S&P 500 plunged by almost 17 per cent on Halloween ...

Joined at the hip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2009
... the central bank found it necessary to issue a statement back in September - and reiterated after the October monetary policy meeting -- announcing its intention to keep interest rates at current levels through to the first half of 2010. Never in my ...

What China wants China gets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2009
... sure of this when it announced the 4 trillion yuan (US$585 billion) fiscal stimulus package - along with other monetary policy easing measures - late last year. Invest, invest, invest. Investment contributed 7.3 percentage points to third quarter growth ...

On A$ parity and dashed whispers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2009
... were too timid to lessen that stimulus in a timely way when the threat had passed, we would have a bias in our monetary policy framework....Experience here and elsewhere counsels against that approach." ''The need for such an expansionary setting of ...

Our fearful trip is done

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2009
... have used the same words when he and his Board decided to go back to normality. Setting off to set Australia's monetary policy setting back to normal that is. Normally...typically, this would be regarded as bad. Bad for credit which greases the wheels ...

Vote of confidence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2009
... Australia Governor Glen Stevens. In his testimony before the Australian Parliament, Stevens said, "In the case of monetary policy, the bank has already signalled that interest rates can be expected, at some point, to move off their currently unusually ...

The waiting game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2009
... trading sessions. It's waiting...waiting...waiting. Waiting for what? Wall Street waits for the Fed's verdict on monetary policy. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) begins its two-day deliberation starting tomorrow night. I don't really know why ...

Expect the unexpected

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2009
... for as long as necessary. Policy meetings in the UK, Canada, New Zealand and South Korea produced no changed in monetary policy last week. Echoing the G-20, the Bank of Canada and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand even went so far as declaring that interest ...