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The power of optimism

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2009
... announced a third government stimulus plan. The reason why the Bank of England (BoE) has formally implemented quantitative easing and is buying gilts directly. The reason why the Swiss National Bank (SNB) and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) lowered ...

Nationalisation - that ugly word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
... Governor the green light to seek authority from the Chancellor of the Exchequer to expand the money supply via quantitative easing. European leaders met in Berlin over the weekend to discuss a coordinated pan-European response to the global financial ...

Worst of the worst

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
... Just like recent actions taken by the US Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan, the BoE is going the way of quantitative easing. The British central bank announced that it would begin purchasing up to 50 billion (US$71.5 billion) in assets, including ...

Sucked in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2009
... have no other choice but to print money. It will make good on its word to expand its balance sheet 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 ...

Bad tidings we bring

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2009
... feeling in the UK economy 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 ...

Daily economic update

... Central Bank has also lifted rates and speculation is it would do so again next month. Japan has removed its quantitative easing policy and is gearing to end its zero interest rate policy soon. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand has increased the cash rate ...

Weekly economic round-up

... expansion in its economy in the fourth quarter - giving credence to the Bank of Japan's recent decision to end its quantitative easing policy and supporting views that interest rates would soon be lifted. Meanwhile, mixed growth indications in the US ...

Daily economic update

... more than seven years of falling prices (deflation) in the country, prompting the Bank of Japan to end its quantitative easing policy last week. Further signs of sustainable growth could spur the BoJ to raise interest rates - from virtually zero - as ...

Weekly economic round-up

... attention to the central bank's two day monetary policy meeting given recent rhetoric that it will soon end its quantitative easing.

Daily Economic Update

... Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's comment putting pressure on the Bank of Japan (BoJ) not to change its quantitative easing policy so soon, saying that it is `too early' for the BoJ to change its deflation fighting policy. The Japanese central ...