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Australian end of financial year sale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017
... lower than the 2.44% rate at the start of 2017 and the high of 2.63% recorded in March. Then there was Super Mario of the ECB whose comment that, "deflationary forces have been replaced by reflationary ones", were interpreted at hinting that normalisation ...

Expansions maintained despite dashed expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 JUN 2017
... in the first quarter to 0.7%." But unlike the US, the latest survey shows easing inflation in the region - justifying the ECB's concern. "Despite signs of capacity being strained, average prices charged for goods and services rose at the slowest rate ...

Good oil, bad oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUN 2017
... in oil prices persist, central banks will have a problem (an inflation problem) - supporting the European Central Bank's (ECB) concern over the durability and sustainability of accelerating growth in consumer prices while at the same time putting a question ...

Eurozone gaining momentum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2017
... macro dynamics in the US economy. No surprises too that financial markets are speculating that the European Central Bank (ECB) would follow suit...and soon. After all the Eurozone economy's gaining momentum. GDP growth accelerated to 1.9% in the year ...

Central Banks fail to disappoint

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 JUN 2017
... markets. Not that anyone has to be reminded about this truism of course. The world's four major central banks - the Fed, the ECB, the BOJ and the BOE - and the RBA met over the past forthnight and not a single one failed market expectations. Perhaps ...

Cloudy skies in the land of the rising sun

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2017
... thinking about how to handle a withdrawal from monetary stimulus" makes no sense. For sure, the BOJ, like the Fed and the ECB and most other central banks engaged in non-conventional policies, wants to get their monetary policy settings back to normal. ...

Eurozone ascending

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2017
If Monsieur Benoit Coeure's - member of the executive board of the European Central Bank (ECB) - recent comments are any indication, don't expect any changes in ECB monetary policy settings anytime soon. Coure told his audience at a conference at the ...

The growth-inflation divide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2017
... expectations have remained in a weakening phase" and even lowered its FY projection to 1.4% from 1.5%. The European Central Bank's (ECB) policy decision, assessment and outlook were almost identical that you only have to replace BOJ with ECB in the preceding ...

The CPI report that confirms all biases

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2017
... mentioned and also that the headline inflation and the weighted median rates were below market expectations. Here, let me add ECB president Super Mario's prescient statement in March that rising headline inflation mainly reflected "strong increase in ...

The prescience of Super Mario

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2017
Rising momentum in the Eurozone economy have triggered speculations that the European Central Bank (ECB) would not only taper its QE programme soon but also lift interest rates by the first quarter of 2018. The problem with this is that stronger economic ...