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No meat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2009
... enter into a private-public partnership where both will provide insurance financing to toxic debts. The Fed could start lending against AA commercial and private label mortgage backed securities. The plan will require FSP participating institutions to ...

Darkest before dawn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
... taking the year off. Job insecurity and job losses, businesses closures, home repossessions and foreclosures, tighter lending standards, output contraction all over the planet, nationalization, de-facto nationalisation, the list goes on. The International ...

Sherry's to-do list for 2009

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
... the senator is a national regulation of financial services and consumer credit - including the legislation around margin lending. "For the first time, margin lending will be properly regulated in Australia at a national level," he said. The Government's ...

Worst of the worst

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
... the US. In efforts to stop the hemorrhage, like most other central banks, the Bank of England (BoE) has brought its base lending rate to 1.5 per cent as 2008 became 2009. This level of interest rates has not been seen before in the Bank's more than 300-year ...

Good Bank Bad Bank

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2009
... is good. Take away all the bad assets from banks and financial institutions and they will be healthy enough to resume lending. Credit will again start flowing and grease the wheels of recovery. But this maybe better said than done. After all the RTC ...

Bigger fish to fry

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2009
... already handed billions of dollars in fiscal stimulus, guaranteed bank deposits, assisted the auto industry and created a lending facility to the commercial property sector. There are plans to dole out more government largesse. Never mind if the Budget ...

Sucked in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2009
... not nominal rates. It would make a mockery of finance, the same way the CDOs (collateralized debt obligation), sub-prime lending and Zimbabwe printing Z$100 trillion notes have. So what is the Fed going to do? Given the extent of the problem - and without ...

Gung Hay Fat Choy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2009
... Peoples Central Bank of China (PBOC) raised interest rates in the past to try and slow its economy? It raised its benchmark lending rate from 5.31 per cent in 2004 to 7.47 per cent in 2007. Not only this, during the same time period, it steadily raised ...

Read between the headlines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2009
... confident that they resume their spending. It is only when banks and financial institutions are confident that they resume lending. It is only when businesses are confident that they resume investment - in buildings and equipments and workers. It is ...

Bonds no safer than houses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2009
... are worried about their jobs - unemployment rose to 7.2 per cent in December (a 15-year high) - and banks are tightening lending standards. More job losses are in store as company revenues decline and production is cut back - industrial production plunged ...

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