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Strength in (A$) weakness

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2016
... resorting to the "No Parking" signs implemented by the Bank of Japan - negative interest rate - and the European Central Bank - negative deposit rate - both of which are trying to cheapened their currencies to stimulate their economies and export deflation ...

BOJ goes negative to get postive

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2016
A week and a day after equity markets welcomed Super Mario Draghi's announcement that the European Central Bank (ECB) would "review and possibly reconsider our monetary policy stance at our next meeting in early March in order to secure a return of ...

It's "whatever it takes" time again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2016
Woe is us! Just as the European Central Bank (ECB) appears to be winning its fight against inflation, justifying its less-than-expected "go slow" on stimulus policy announcement last 3 December, crude oil comes along. Though minimal, latest Eurozone ...

Lift then back to zero (even negative)?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2015
... survey respondents failed to account for was the reflationary measures currently being implemented by the European Central Bank (ECB), the Bank of Japan (BOJ), the People's Bank of China (PBOC) and many other central banks. These measures would have ...

Swiss franc surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2015
... (SNB) could follow up its recent verbal interventions with actual ones ahead of the near certainty that the European Central Bank (ECB) would boost its stimulus programme come 3 December. Could it be? Could it be that the SNB would be forced to reverse ...

December moves

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2015
... chill out, come back and see what the data says." It's as certain as sure that by this time next week, the European Central Bank (ECB) would have announced increased policy accommodation - they're only now debating what form it'll take. Financial markets ...

Road of no return

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015
... QE2, stopped... and then "Operation Twist" and then QE3. And wouldn't this create greater uncertainty? The European Central Bank (ECB) tried this before - it raised the repo rate from 1.0% to 1.25% in April 2011 and then to 1.5% by July of the same year. ...

Not happy Jan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
... bankers such as the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) but more pointedly for the Bank of Japan (BOJ) and the European Central Bank (ECB). RBA Gov Glenn presented his rationale before the Australian Parliament's economics committee on why the Fed should ...

Super Mario returns fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
... the region. The euro dropped to as low as US$1.1085 while we slept after the Super one announced that the European Central Bank (ECB) raised the cap of sovereign bonds it could buy from 25% of each issue to 33%, QE will continue to proceed as planned ...

One down, two to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
Following on from China's "rule of three", the ECB has three of its own. The minutes of the European Central Bank's (ECB) 15-16 July meeting revealed the three things that are keeping the governing council members awake at night - Greece, China and ...