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The other race

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2008
... Australian equity market's apathetic response to the RBA's bigger-than-expected 75 basis point interest rate reduction, monetary policy is not delivering the bang for the buck that it used to produce. One reason for this is that credit prices in the ...

Fidelity gears for reflation

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2008
... time." Reflation, as opposed to inflation, is the restoration of economic activity to higher levels by manipulating monetary policy, which is what's happening now when central banks started pumping liquidity back into the market and governments are cutting ...

Fed on Zero Interest Rate Policy?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2008
... Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will have a lot to digest when its Board meets today to deliberate on the country's monetary policy setting. However, the RBA has only one critical decision to make - by how much does it need to CUT interest rates. With ...

Moral hazard remains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2008
... authorities responded to the savings and loan crisis, Long Term Capital Management, the dotcom bubble with very easy monetary policy and/or fiscal largesse. This prevented the complete unwinding of excess debt in the system. Now they are trying to respond ...

Whac-a-mole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2008
... releases due out of the US this week. Although financial markets do not expect the Federal Reserve to alter US monetary policy this month and keep the fed funds rate steady at 2.0 per cent, they expect the Fed to become more pessimistic over its assessment ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2008
... Bank of New Zealand assistant governor Dr John McDermott speaks at an Australian Business Economists lunch on "Monetary Policy Issues in New Zealand". Base metals and uranium explorer Aluminex Resources Ltd is to list on the Australian securities exchange. ...

Stagflation policy conundrum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2008
... recession. With recession staring the New Zealand economy in the eye, the RBNZ had no other option but to ease monetary policy despite inflation remaining above its 3 per cent upper limit. After leaving interest rates at a 10-year high of 8.25 per cent ...

This Week's Movers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2008
... benchmark interest rate last week. The Bank of Canada, the Bank of England and the European Central Bank kept monetary policy unchanged. The downtrend in commodity prices continued last week, pulling down resource and energy companies. Australia and ...

US payrolls jitters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2008
... 75,000 fall expected. Meanwhile, the outcome of the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of England's (BoE) monetary policy meetings produced no real surprises for the financial markets. As expected, the ECB left policy unchanged at 4.25 per cent ...

Weak growth confirms RBA cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2008
... Central Bank from lowering interest rates to stimulate their respective economies - both are expected to keep monetary policy steady when they meet later this week. This is in contrast with the RBA's recent rate cut decision, indicating that it is now ...