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RBNZ cuts rates, biased towards further easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2016
... 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 same ...

Market confidence marches in March

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2016
... meme? 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 ...

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

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2016
... The 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
Latest euro area inflation data released by Eurostat has all but ensured that ECB President Mario Draghi will make good on his 21 January promise to "...reconsider our monetary policy stance at our next meeting in early March" aka increase policy stimulus. ...

A "chilling" moment for the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 FEB 2016
... If you ask moi, my answer would be it depends. It depends on the actions of other central banks. The European Central Bank (ECB) meets on the 10th of March. It's already promised action at this meeting. Speculations are it would take the deposit rate ...

A negative sum game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2016
... are doing fine, but the "global economy" presents the biggest threat to their growth and inflation objectives. This was the ECB's message in its 21 January statement: "developments in the real economy... have improved. Yet, as we start the new year ...

Gold starts to glisten (like 2008?)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2016
... surging as central banks try to goose the system with more liquidity and this time, negative interest rates. The BOJ and the ECB are pumping yen and euros - both have embarked on negative interest rate policy with promises to do more "if it becomes necessary". ...

Who can dig a deeper hole?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2016
... and to minus 0.75% a month later. We now know that the Swiss National Bank and the Riskbank quickly followed suit and the ECB has taken its deposit facility rate deeper into negative (minus 0.30%) only last December - and could take it down some more ...

Global central banks going for the cut

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2016
... the exception of the Fed, central banks are doing more rather than less. We saw it with the Bank of Japan and we expect the ECB to move further into negative territory. Those cuts are likely. It's a consistent theme."

Strength in (A$) weakness

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2016
... trying to cheapened their currencies to stimulate their economies and export deflation elsewhere... anywhere but at home. The ECB promised more to come next month and the BOJ could do more "if it is judged necessary for achieving the price stability ...