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Crimea makes it domestic

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014
... lights flashing on the screens of most major equity markets overnight. Not even next door neighbour - the European Central Bank (ECB) - is perturbed. It voted to keep interest rates unchanged overnight. According to ECB President Mario Draghi, "When ...

Punishing Putin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2014
... at the Russian stock market's 11% drop overnight or the impact on Russia's already slowing economy of the Russian Central Bank's decision to lift interest rates by 150 bps to 7% -- in order to halt the ruble sell-off (down 1.8% overnight and 10% for ...

Catching the big wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2014
... followed five straight days of decline. The news was full of it. The popular "raison d'etre" was that the Chinese central bank wants to warn speculators that they're not getting their yuan lunches for free no more and/or that it's introducing currency ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
... decline. Investors were also spooked over a possibly cooling Chinese property market and lending curbs as China's central bank effectively drew cash out of the system as it continues to fret over possible bad debts among lenders. In local economic news ...

A-dollar zero point six six

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
He's either really brave or truly spaced out after smoking some heavy stuff. One thing's for sure though, Deutsche Bank's chief economist for Australia Adam Boyton has made the headlines with his fearless forecast that the Australian dollar would be ...

G-20 goes for growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2014
The week that was looked exactly like the week before that was. Yes Virginia, financial market sentiment remains upbeat for what is good is good and what is bad, what is disappointing, what is negative is "likely affected by the weather". Blame the ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2014
... Thursday, the March share price index futures contract was down 16 points at 5,361. The Fed minutes showed that the central bank officials agreed at their January meeting that further gradual reductions in their stimulus would be appropriate as long ...

Action!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2014
... folks, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) has responded. The financial presses and commentariats may be calling the Japanese central bank's decision to expand its lending facilities a surprise but we know better, do we not? The BOJ must have read what I wrote on ...

Confusing versus credible

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2014
... game. Have markets given up on BOE credibility? This makes me wonder if Alan 'the maestro' Greenspan's meme over central bank communication (aka " Fedspeak ") was better all along. According to 'the maestro', he Fedspoke deliberately -- it's a "purposeful ...

You say threshold, I say trigger

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
... unemployment rate is just a threshold and thresholds are not triggers, what's the trigger?... and how is this good for central bank credibility?