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Pres Obama proposes sweeping regulatory reforms

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2009
... the Federal Reserve whose role will expand to monitoring the whole financial system rather than just banking and monetary policy, reports the Asian Wall Street Journal. In the Council's sights will be financial conglomerates whose "combination of size ...

Good news in inaction

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2009
... Australia (RBA), the European Central Bank (ECB), the Bank of England (BoE) and the Bank of Canada (BoC) all held monetary policy meetings last week. And guess what? Not a single central bank announced a reduction in interest rates. Not one announced ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
... points at 3,892. In economic news on Friday, the Reserve Bank of Australia releases its quarterly statement on monetary policy. The Australian Office of Financial Management conducts a tender for $700 million March 2019 bonds, and online employment agency ...

IMF and Swan riding on doom

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
... contribution to reducing the duration of recessions associated with financial crises.' In case you missed it, monetary policy does not work, fiscal policy will. Read another way, lower interest rates do not increase our funding, government spending would. ...

Beggar thy neighbour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2009
... safe-haven - has appreciated as the GFC progressed. But the Swiss franc's appreciation has effectively tightened monetary policy, dampening economic activity and now threatens to put the country in a state of deflation. The Swiss response? Explicit currency ...

Fanning the flames of fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2009
... we're still at a level where the positives are not fully priced in.' He also noted that the positive impact of monetary policy and lower oil prices are being underestimated and that the corporate bond market has improved in 2009. Perhaps we are living ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
... announce additional stimulus spending as expected. Dealers said there was then nervousness about whether the new monetary policy tack taken by Britain would work, how much it would cost and the ultimate price. The Bank of England announced plans to inject ...

Nationalisation - that ugly word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
... wasn't just the US doing the heavy lifting. The minutes of the Bank of England's (BoE) February meeting - where the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) voted 8-1 to cut interest rates to an all-time low of 1 per cent - revealed that the MPC gave the BoE ...

The biggest loser

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2009
... BoE slashed its cash rate to an all-time low of 1 per cent. The ECB fears falling into a liquidity trap where monetary policy becomes impotent. ECB President Jean Claude Trichet explained that the central bank's last rate reduction in January had already ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2009
... Construction Index for January. At 1130 AEDT, the Reserve Bank of Australia releases its quarterly statement on monetary policy. In company news, News Corporation releases first half results in New York, National Australia Bank provides a market update ...