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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 APR 2016
... leading composite index (of 12 economic indicators) in February justifies recent speculations that the the Bank of Japan (BOJ) would announce further policy easing later this week and the BOJ's call for the government to do more to help the central bank ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2016
... Australia's government debt was held by foreigners. Japan bank lending It might still be early days but so far the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) negative interest rates policy appears to not be having an impact on bank lending in Japan. The total value of loans ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2016
... according to NAB's chief economist Alan Oster. Japan bank lending It might still be early days but so far the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) negative interest rates policy appears to not be having an impact on bank lending in Japan. The total value of loans extended ...

Look up in the sky, it's the yen

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2016
... even before 2015 turned into 2016. And this is creating big time headaches for the Japanese government and the Bank of Japan (BOJ). Despite the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) latest policy initiative - termed "Quantitative and Qualitative (QQE) Monetary Easing ...

Janet's words stronger than BOJ and ECB bazookas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2016
... a negative interest rate. All of the above plus promises of more. The European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) big bazookas proved no match for US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's words, "I consider it appropriate for the Committee ...

Easier for as long as necessary?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2016
... was the case last week when a number of central banks and their boards met to discuss money policy. While the Bank of Japan (BOJ) and the Bank of England (BOE) kept monetary policy unchanged - and despite at differing stages in their economic cycles ...

RBNZ cuts rates, biased towards further easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2016
... percent higher than projected in December". The NZ$ is currently trading at US$0.6627. Like many other central banks (the BOJ and the ECB, in particular), the RBNZ wants a lower currency in order to boost the country's export competitiveness and at the ...

Market confidence marches in March

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2016
... Certainly looks like it with investors now widely anticipating more policy easing coming their way, and soon, from the ECB and the BOJ. The PBOC has just lowered its RRR and more are expected from Beijing in the way of both fiscal and monetary actions ...

With pretty numbers like these, who needs a rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2016
... problem now is that Australia's good tidings are sending the A$ back up again. This is compounded by our neighbours - ECB and BOJ, among others -- intent to bring their own currencies lower in order to have what Australia is having. Expect Gov Glenn ...

A "must do" for the ECB

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2016
... mainly by the 8.0% drop in the energy component over the month. The ECB could take a similar reasoning as the Fed and the BOJ and the BOE, viewing current weak headline inflation as "transitory" because of the volatile nature of energy prices. But Draghi ...