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Expecting the expected

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2017
... from 1.0% this year but only its inflation projections to 0.5% this year and 0.7% in 2018. As expected, the Bank of England (BOE) left monetary policy settings where they were following what was also a well-telegraphed 25 basis point interest rate hike ...

What price Brexit certainty?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2017
... all surprising given the latest flow of stronger economic stats in the country - one that has prompted the Bank of England (BOE) to announce its first interest rate hike in more than a decade - it raised the Bank Rate from 0.25% to 0.5% on the 2nd of ...

Changed RBA rate expectations?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2017
... from the world's three biggest central banks that met last week. The Bank of Japan (BOJ), the Fed and the Bank of England (BOE) all delivered as expected but not without help from the repeated and reiterated "forward guidance" from the central bank chiefs ...

BOE does what it said it would do

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2017
The Bank of England (BOE) did what it said it would do -- it lifted the Bank Rate by 25 basis points to 0.5% following its 2 November monetary policy council meeting (MPC). The announcement marks the first time in more than a decade that the BOE raised ...

Two holds and a raise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 OCT 2017
... that ensures that the Fed keeps its word of another rate hike next month. Most interesting would be the Bank of England's (BOE) meeting on 2 November. Unlike America and Japan, the UK's has seen strong growth and above target inflation. But unlike in ...

Go ahead BOE, make my day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2017
... Japanese yen (and to a two-month high against the strengthening euro). That was on 14 September when the Bank of England (BOE) kept policy unchanged as expected but warned that "...some withdrawal of monetary stimulus is likely to be appropriate over ...

India's upside risks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2017
Perhaps the Reserve Bank of India was just following its former colonial master. For similar to the Bank of England (BOE) - it cut interest rates by 25 basis points to 0.25% in August 2016 to head off the potential negative fall-out from Brexit win ...

Expansion everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2017
... constraints. It's the same with output prices as higher costs are being passed onto the final consumer. This could prompt the BOE to make good on its forward guidance at its September meeting that, "some withdrawal of monetary stimulus is likely to be ...

Transparency to the max

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 SEP 2017
... target of 2%, as long as it is necessary for maintaining that target in a stable manner." The same with the Bank Of England (BOE): "...with the further lessening in the trade-off that this would imply, some withdrawal of monetary stimulus is likely to ...

The British pound's sterling reversal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 SEP 2017
... against the strengthening euro - at the close of last week's trading. And no, it's not because of what the Bank of England (BOE) did at the monetary policy council's 14 September meeting - it kept policy unchanged as expected - but what it told markets ...