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Sitting and waiting and still hoping

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2012
... ki yay! This would put a limit on the borrowing costs highly indebted euro countries have to pay. That was until the Bundesbank put an end to this wishful thinking. "The Bundesbank remains critical of the purchase of euro system sovereign bonds, which ...

Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Noi! Noi! Noi!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2012
... entrants to the market, arriving in the last year." The Swiss National Bank is joining these A$ hoarders and Germany's Bundesbank will, in September. The A$ is now becoming a safe-haven... if it's not already. Sure, sure we are simply the best, better ...

Chinalising Europe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2011
... course, but it would not be a cataclysm either." And... it "wouldn't be the end of the world" chimed ECB policymaker and Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann. Finally, where would the euro crisis be without a statement from our dear Angela. She was at ...

Sovereigns need not apply

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2011
... "We have a treaty which bans monetary financing (of government debt)... the treaty embodies the best tradition of the Bundesbank... the ECB's primary remit is price stability," Draghi declared at the post-meeting press conference. And the rumoured "trick" ...

More of the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011
... Germany that should be booted out of the Eurozone? Just a thought... or maybe not. Remember that it was also the German Bundesbank - and its insistence of maintaining high interest rates in the early 1990s - that unshackled the old exchange rate mechanism ...

Autumn Angst

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2011
... -- betting against the pound that profited, UK's economy also resumed growing, free from the shackles of the German Bundesbank's high interest rate regime. Given this history, I, me and Irene should be celebrating the collapse of the Eurozone instead... ...

Not looking good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2011
... holdings. So too is ECB economist Jurgen Stark's resignation over differences about the Bank's bond purchase plans. Bundesbank President Axel Weber resigned in February this year also on the same issue, underscoring the rift at the top echelons of the ...

ECB relents, sort of

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
... No "extra" bond purchases. How could it when the ECB's one of the primary critics of the Fed's QE2? Also not, when Bundesbank President Axel Weber (note that the ECB had always been trying to shape itself into the fiercely-independent, widely-respected ...

Nein to naked shorts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2010
... only to the US dollar as a major international reserve currency. This was born out of the German central bank's -- the Bundesbank -- strict policies against inflation and political meddling. Then the euro was born, and Germany's Bundesbank gave up control ...

Flip-flop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAR 2010
... somehow I think Germany means it. Germany sent the UK packing back in the early 1990s when Germany's central bank - the Bundesbank - refused to budge on monetary policy that eventually led to the break-up of the old European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) ...

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