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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 ...

Robots will take over white collar jobs first

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2014
Contrary to the popular belief, robots are more likely to take over the tasks of medium and high-skilled workers, rather than jobs that do not require a university education, a Department of Industry paper determined. "The challenges presented by increasing ...

ECB came bearing no pre-Xmas cheer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2014
... ultra low and negative interest rates and TLTRO (targeted long-term refinancing operations) and asset-backed securities programme and covered bond purchase programme to work and make outright QE not necessary. This, or as we've witnessed at the height ...

Sydney set to become China share trading hub

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2014
... via the Shanghai exchange. Investors must be accredited through the Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor (QFII) programme which limits foreign investors from holding more than 10% of a Chinese listed company and requires them to hold investments ...