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Santa Mario brings cheers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2015
Merry Xmas to you too, signore Draghi Only two days before, most have given up expecting more goodies from "Super 'whatever it takes' Mario". No mas, not after the ECB's Bank Lending Survey showed that QE is doing what's intended to do - ease lending ...

ANALYSIS: The rise of the periphery

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... the region to recover, that it is a 'two steps forward, one step back situation." But following the Federal Reserve's QE program, "the US responded to the stimulus and is getting back to normal." The main difference with Europe is not only that the region ...

Forget Australia, head stateside for property yield

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... characteristics," the analysts said. With sector valuations high, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) lowering rates and the US QE program finished, investors might move away from Australian property and back into the American market. "There are concerns ...

Don't put all QE in the same basket: AXA

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015
... investors buy won't necessarily benefit from the program. "Investors should expect different economic impact from every QE program," he said.

May Day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015
I think someone forgot to tell the equity markets that it's not yet that month of the year when they're supposed to sell and go away. Look around and you won't like what you see because major equity markets around the world have been selling a few days ...

PIMCO sees opportunity in EU bonds

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... Cyclical Outlook for March 2015 noted that the slow growth forecasted for the Eurozone might force the ECB to adjust its QE program higher. "The challenges to European growth in the medium term mean that unstable debt dynamics remain an important secular ...

PBOC to QE?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
"He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot will be victorious." - Lao Tzu, 'The Art of 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 ...

The die is cast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2015
"Alea iacta est"! "The die is cast". This is what Julius Caesar exclaimed when he crossed the river Rubicon back in 49 BC. The same phrase that ECB president Mario Draghi must be uttering to himself as he began spending the first euro of his a,-60 billion ...

Fight or be beggared by the neighbours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2015
Another rate cut is coming, another rate cut is coming. Bloomberg's survey shows (tada!) 18 out of 29 economists expect the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to follow-up February's 25 bps reduction in the official cash rate to 2.25% with another 25 bps ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2015
... investors remain uncertain over the exact size of the stimulus. In recent days some analysts have suggested that the ECB's QE program could include at least 500 billion euros ($A750 billion) of government debt and up to 250 billion euros of other non-financial ...