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A "race to the bottom" in currencies

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 17 SEP 2010
The world's major central banks are in danger of setting off a mercantilist race to the bottom as they attempt to gain competitiveness through artificial currency debasement, analysts say. After six years of abstinence, the Japanese Ministry of Finance ...

Market Wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2010
... statistician Martine Durand are scheduled to speak at the NatStats 2010 conference at Darling Harbour in Sydney. Also, the central bank is due to release its bulletin for the September quarterly. The Australian Bureau of Statistics is scheduled to release ...

Banks to raise capital reserves

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
... will be introduced through 2015 while the leverage ratio is three years later in 2018. President of the European Central Bank and chairman of the group, Jean-Claude Trichet stated that the changes would contribute to long-term stability and growth. Other ...

CB thoughts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
"But where do you go to my lovely When you're alone in your bed Tell me the thoughts that surround you I want to look inside your head, yes I do." -- Peter Sarstedt We, mere mortals, watching the financial market's daily gyrations and the regular drip ...

Snakes and ladders

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
... one million euros. European government bond spreads blew out and equity markets sold off. Apart from the European Central Bank (ECB), who'll be willing - rather stupid enough - to lend to Europe? Worse, more banks would be required to hold more capital ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2010
... the top 20 that are not green." Markets took heart from comments by US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke of the central bank providing more support the American economy if necessary, Mr Heffernan said. "His comments have been totally consistent," ...

A friend like Ben

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2010
... further disinflation-and to promote the continuation of the economic recovery." There you go - the world's biggest central bank's portrait of the economic and financial world. But hey, isn't this what Big Ben's been telling the markets for a number of ...

Glum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2010
Glum has entered the building. Remember him? The teenie weenie Lilliputian in Gulliver's Travels who when faced with a predicament - any predicament - exclaims, "We'll never make it! We're doomed!" So it is with Wall Street and its view of the US economy ...

Nigerian PenCom adjusts pension

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2010
... economic instruments. Under previous regulations in Nigeria, only bonds issued by the Federal Government of Nigeria or Central Bank of Nigeria could receive investments by pension fund assets. This has now expanded to include those issued by any state ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 AUG 2010
... between Prime Minister Naoto Kan and Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa, and speculation has heightened that the central bank may ease monetary policy further ahead of the meeting. The benchmark Nikkei gained 122.14 points to 9,362.68, while the ...