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Currency warriors, mount horses and draw swords

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015
... central banks of Australia, India, Singapore, China, Peru, Turkey, Russia and Canada; QE by the ECB; more (or longer) QE by the BOJ; and the RBNZ's policy hawk to dove reversal. Financial markets expect more easing moves from the same central banks and ...

A Fed surprise?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015
... policy between the Fed - expected to raise interest rates sometime this year - and quantitative easing by the Bank of Japan (BOJ) and the European Central Bank (ECB) leaves markets no other option but to catch a ride with greenback. Financial markets ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2015
... two-day meeting. The yen rose against both the US dollar and the euro on the news, however, as traders took solace in the BoJ's announcement that it was also raising Japan's growth outlook on signs the economy was rebounding. Shares in Tokyo's benchmark ...

Auld lang syne

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2015
... talks). And then there's that other central bank - the Bank of Japan. It's on a shopping spree. Bloomberg data shows that the BOJ's balance sheet increased to 57% of GDP at the end of September, up from 34% when the BOJ first implemented its bond buys ...

Sliding oil price would stop the slide in the oil price

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
... environment into outright deflation. This wouldn't be swell. But already, the big central bankers - the ECB, the PBOC and the BOJ - are pre-empting (and are likely to act some more) this from taking hold. And surely, the Fed and the BOE, would be there ...

Quo vadis dollar-A?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
... expectations would remain as they are - the Fed and the BOE would begin lift-off by next year; the ECB could announce QE; the BOJ would continue QQE; and the PBOC (depending on how much slower the Politburo could tolerate slowing growth) could ease.... ...

100% steady on the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2014
... purchase programmes (2 October); the US Federal Reserve announced the completion of QE3 (29 October); and, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) expanded its quantitative and qualitative monetary easing measures (31 October). It'll be interesting to know the RBA's ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
... prior peak, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite rose 64.60 (1.41 per cent) to 4,630.74, its highest close of the year. The BoJ announced on Friday it would add up to Y20 trillion ($A211.09 billion) to its current asset-buying scheme, bringing it to ...

Goodbye QE, hello QQE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
... go go, oh no You say goodbye and I say hello Hello hello" -- The Beatles Just as the Fed concluded QE3, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) served up the biggest trick or treat this Halloween by expanding its QQE. The trick. Not even a full month before (7 October) ...

QEnd is here

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2014
... the same time that the European Central Bank (ECB) is expected to roll out its money printing machine and the Bank of Japan (BOJ) anticipated to print some more. The Fed killed QE because "Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee ...