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BOE no change, no worries

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2015
... "editors" that, "The previous change in Bank Rate was a reduction of 0.5 percentage points to 0.5% on 5 March 2009. A programme of asset purchases financed by the issuance of central bank reserves was initiated on 5 March 2009. The previous change in ...

PROFILE: HESTA chief executive Debby Blakey

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
"I love the fact that Melbourne has lots of immigrants and great, multicultural suburbs," she says, comparing it to the quiet suburb in Durban, South Africa, where she spent most of her childhood and early years of her adult life. A computer programmer ...

A win-win currency war?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
... bottom with the ECB and the BOJ digging even deeper and the BOE continues to maintain the ceiling of its asset buying programme at A£375 billion, mind you. The Fed could start raising the fed funds rate in June or July or August or September this year ...

PBOC to QE?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
... War' That "when" to fight must be nigh. Rumour has it that the People's Bank of China (PBOC) is preparing its own QE programme - prompted by the PBOC's recent approval allowing regional governments to swap around 1 trillion yuan (US$160 billion) of their ...

The die is cast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2015
... Draghi must be uttering to himself as he began spending the first euro of his a,-60 billion a month quantitative easing programme today. Details about the ECB's first buys are still unavailable but Bloomberg reports that it started small and selective. ...

My QE, your problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015
... until September 2016. The European Central Bank (ECB) unveiled the details of its trillion euro quantitative easing programme last night. Special thanks to Bloomberg for saving me work and publishing the details in dot points (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-05/here-s-how-ecb-qe-will-work). ...

Fight or be beggared by the neighbours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2015
... is fighting back. So is the European Central Bank (ECB) which kicks off its a,-60 billion a month quantitative easing programme this month. Deflation has deepened in the regions, dropping to minus 0.6% in January from minus 0.2% in December. Despite ...

Stimulate or deflate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2015
... and reflating". Last week it was Sweden's Riksbank turn. It cut interest rates to negative and announced a bond buying programme worth around 10 billion Swedish kronor (US$1.2 billion), joining the growing number of central banks trying to prevent low-flation ...

Super Mario delivers huge stimulus package

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015
... 22 January Governing Council meeting. Decisions, decisions: "First, it decided to launch an expanded asset purchase programme, encompassing the existing purchase programmes for asset-backed securities and covered bonds. Under this expanded programme ...

So sure it's certain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2015
... confidence, among others. A legal backing was all QE needed and the European Court of Justice approved the ECB's bond buying programme last week. QE here it comes. Besides, with expectations at fever pitch, the ECB could no longer afford to disappoint ...