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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
... have ongoing tensions in the Middle East though, so that still has the potential to affect risk appetite." The Bank of England is due to release minutes for its March Monetary Policy Committee meeting, during which it decided to keep interest rates at ...

Tightrope walker

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
... central bank do when it's presented with weak economic activity and rising inflation? Such is the dilemma that the Bank of England (BOE) must confront. Financial market speculation of an imminent BOE rate hike may have been move further up the timeline ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2011
... smaller rises on the Swiss bourse, 0.31 per cent, and in Amsterdam, which gained 0.26 per cent. In London, the Bank of England forecast on Wednesday that the British economy, which suffered a shock contraction in the final three months of last year ...

Headlining the core

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2011
... and services continue to head north. Last night's report that UK inflation jumped to 4.0 per cent - double the Bank of England's target ceiling -- in the year to January from 3.7 per cent in the previous month has added tinder to the burning coals of ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2011
... gains and tried to get a fix on the outlook as political unrest in Egypt and the Middle East prompted caution. The Bank of England's decision to keep interest rates on hold was expected, although analysts said they believed the vote must have been close ...

Haste makes waste

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 JAN 2011
... year - on indications of stronger economic growth and rising inflation pressure" is screening once again. The Bank of England (BOE) may start off proceedings toward higher interest rates and... it might not have to wait until the second half. The Financial ...

Value a plus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 JAN 2011
... closings. That may be, but the quantitative easing policies implemented by the Fed, the Bank of Japan and the Bank of England have thus far failed to generate meaningful improvements in their respective economies. The near-term outlook for the economies ...

Queuing for QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2010
... needed to stem the yen's appreciation. Britain's Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) now expects the Bank of England to keep nail interest rates at 0.5 per cent until late 2012 and announce another 100 billion pounds or US$160 billion in ...

CB thoughts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
... to expand its special loan facility to domestic institutions. Emergency meeting? That spells trouble to me! The Bank of England's latest monetary policy decision - it kept interest rates unchanged at 0.5 per cent and maintained its emergency bond purchase ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2010
... fears that one of the world's growth engines might not be able to drag its peers forward. At the same time, a Bank of England growth downgrade for the British economy added to the negative tone and offset recent strong eurozone figures. Second quarter ...