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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 ...

PIMCO appoints world leaders to advisory board

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2015
... board members are former UK Prime Minister and former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, and former European Central Bank president and chairman of the European group of the Trilateral Commission, Jean-Claude Trichet. New America chief executive ...

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 ...

The man with the golden jawbone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... with the People's Bank of China's recent easing announcement and we got this make no mistake statement from European Central Bank executive board member and chief economist Peter Praet last night: "Developments in the world economy and in commodity markets ...

Gloom and doom news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... elevated - that prompted coordinated action by six of the world's biggest central banks - US Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, Bank of Japan, Bank of England, Bank of Canada, Swiss National Bank. The only problem I have is determining if markets ...