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Road of no return

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015
... 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 this year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2015
... least until 2015 turns into 2016. While financial markets have stabilised, last week's policy surprise announcements from the ECB and the PBOC - a potential BOJ surprise this coming Friday would no longer be surprise - provide a just-in-time reminder ...

Hotel California

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2015
... Stoxx 50 - after their strong gains of the past week because, wait for it......because investors suddenly realised that the ECB and the PBOC's early Christmas gift-giving underlined the growing risks to the global growth outlook. Duh! Did anybody think ...

Christmas in October

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2015
... stimulus measure surprises - promised and actual - sent investors a-carolling last week. More stimulus is on the way! This was ECB boss Mario Draghi's early Xmas present to the markets. The only question is the form - NIRP, increase in the €60 billion ...

Santa Mario brings cheers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2015
... Only two days before, most have given up expecting more goodies from "Super 'whatever it takes' Mario". No mas, not after the ECB's Bank Lending Survey showed that QE is doing what's intended to do - ease lending conditions. So 'twas baby what a big ...

Quantitative easing eases bank lending

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2015

Central banks of the world, coordinate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2015

Not happy Jan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
... 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 lift: "The ...

Super Mario returns fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
... 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 - until ...

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 ...