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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 ...

No follow through

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 AUG 2017
Unlike the Bank of Canada (BOC) which he headed from 2008-2013, now Bank of England (BOE) governor Mark Carney didn't follow through on the remarks he made at the European Central Bank Forum in Portugal that, "Some removal of monetary stimulus is likely ...

Inflation matters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUL 2017
In his interview with 'The Independent' earlier this month, the Bank of England's (BOE) MPC external member Gertjan Vlieghe cautioned: "This is an environment where a premature hike would be a bigger mistake than one that turns out to be slightly late." ...

Not showing: inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 JUL 2017
... 2% target (the People's Bank of China's target is 3.5%). Only the UK's core inflation rate is above the Bank of England's (BOE) target driven by no other than the pound's depreciation since the Brexit vote. But even the BOE consider this as temporary. ...

AMP Capital grows infrastructure team

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2017
... monitoring and reporting the performance of the state's $38 billion electricity sector. Global head of infrastructure equity Boe Pahari said Prnjatovic's appointment follows the recent acquisition of a major stake in Endeavour Energy on behalf of long-term ...

Data dictates immediate BOE action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2017
... hawkish comments before the RBA meeting. This re-think is none better highlighted than in the case of the Bank of England (BOE). Certainly, if there's any other major central bank that would soon follow the Fed towards normalisation, it would be the ...