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Because I'm happy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
... decided to intensify preparatory work related to outright purchases in the ABS market to enhance the functioning of the monetary policy transmission mechanism." Wall Street's happy - S&P 500 up 0.7% to a two-week high - for the bad US retail sales report ...

China's winning

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
... the People's Bank of China's (PBOC) target of 3.5%. This would give the Chinese central bank plenty of scope to ease monetary policy if necessary to achieve Premier Li Keqiang's 7.5% economic growth target. Not that the economy needs it, but just in ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
... down 23 points at 5,426. Locally, in economic news on Friday, the Reserve Bank of Australia releases its Statement on Monetary Policy and the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases June housing finance figures. The National Small Business Summit is ...

All about the slack

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... strong enough to withstand the first interest rate hike which it has kept at a record low 0.5% since March 2009. The monetary policy council (MPC) would be reassessing if continuing strong growth momentum is closing the slack in the economy - recently ...

Not that time yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014
... decided to intensify preparatory work related to outright purchases in the ABS market to enhance the functioning of the monetary policy transmission mechanism." These were the words that came out of the European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi's ...

Punishing Putin (harder)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
... "on watch' basket until the next set of sanctions, perhaps as soon as tonight when the Fed delivers its announcement on monetary policy.

Wall Street snubs the IMF

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2014
... projection for 2015 remains at 4 percent." This is the first bullet point one will read when one clicks on the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) website where it published its July "World Economic Outlook Update". Yet Wall Street appeared to have missed ...

Arrows and more arrows

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2014
... was anything there - the Board kept interest rates unchanged at 0 to 0.1% and maintained its target of increasing the monetary base at about A¥60 trillion to A¥70 trillion yen a year. The BOJ continues to aim "to achieve the price stability target ...

Governments are 'out of money': Hockey

AAP, PETER TRUTE  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014
... gathering of 400 business chiefs from the world's biggest economies. "How can we have a growth agenda with tightening monetary policy and tightening fiscal policy? "Governments have run out of money to fund the infrastructure needs that the community ...

A BRICS R5 Bank is born

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2014
... coordinated action following an exodus of capital from emerging markets last year, triggered by the scaling back of U.S. monetary stimulus," says Reuters. "The bank will begin with a subscribed capital of $50 billion divided equally between its five ...