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Sucked in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2009
... and go for quantitative easing. The Fed indicated as much in its December FOMC meeting statement. As well, the US Central Bank put forward the idea of credit targeting. That is, it will facilitate the extension of credit to households - personal loans ...

Gung Hay Fat Choy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2009
... past in order to prevent its economy from overheating. It got what it wished for. How many times had the Peoples Central Bank of China (PBOC) raised interest rates in the past to try and slow its economy? It raised its benchmark lending rate from 5.31 ...

Confidence yardstick rises

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
A monthly index that measures investor confidence in key sharemarkets rose for the first time in six months, with US institutional investors the most bullish about the performance of equities. The findings came from the State Street Investor Confidence ...

Cognacs and chocolates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2009
In spite of the best wishes for good tidings for the New Year, sorrows and trouble abound. The global financial crisis shows no signs of abating. The global economic future looks glum. Yet Americans are unable to afford their usual psychological crutches ...

2009: The lost year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2009
... Perhaps in 2010. The top central bankers meeting in Basel Switzerland came to the same conclusion yesterday. European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet -- wearing his cap as head of the Bank of International Settlements - declared before the ...

Bad tidings we bring

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2009
... suggests that the BoE would soon go the way of the Fed by enacting its own policy of quantitative easing. The European Central Bank (ECB) is expected to cut rates by 50 bps to 2 per cent this week. A bigger-than-expected rate cut should not be discounted ...

China syndrome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2008
Red alert! Red alert! China is slowing. China is slowing. Persistent punches by the global financial crisis has knocked out the economies of the United States, the Eurozone, Japan and the United Kingdom to name a few. By its sheer size and ongoing industrialisation ...

Scary Money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2008
... early this week, central banks in the land of Europa executed their own move towards zero last night. The European Central Bank turned on the aggression, slashing interest rates by 75 basis points to 2.5 per cent after cuts of 50 basis points each in ...

Que sera, sera

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2008
... (GSE) debt and up to US$500 billion in mortgage backed securities held by the GSEs. Bernanke also talked about the US central bank providing backstop liquidity directly to certain financial markets rather than just to financial institutions, 'Such programs ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2008
... Lowy Institute in Sydney. In equities, Boart Longyear Ltd provides a market update. On Tuesday, a rate cut by the central bank failed to stem falls on the Australian share market as resources stocks helped drag it down four per cent. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 ...