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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. ...

Quantitative easing eases bank lending

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2015

FEATURE: Investing in a world on hold

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
... assets over the last few months in a bid to secure returns in a low growth environment. "We used to like US equities, European and Japanese equities. But we like them a bit less now because they come with the uncertainty around the Fed's decision, and ...

Central banks of the world, coordinate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2015

OPINION: Why ditching the monarchy makes sense in the Asian century

ANDREW BRAGG, DIRECTOR OF POLICY AT THE FINANCIAL SERVICES COUNCIL  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
... Philippines and Thailand. This is designed to build a regional trading structure which diminishes the influence of the European Union's "UCITS" regime. The central idea is that the Asian region and not Europe should benefit from the Asian region getting ...