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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2010
... points, or 2.14 per cent, to 3,910.42 points. TOKYO - Japanese stocks rose on Friday, as a report that the Bank of Japan (BoJ) was considering monetary easing steps helped the yen to weaken and after better-than-expected US monthly retail sales. The ...

Cash is king in Japan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2009

Stuck at zero

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2009
... providing a cheap - dirt cheap - carry trade for riskier asset classes. It is appearing more and more that the Fed, like the BoJ before it, will be stuck with a zero interest rate policy for much longer than it wants. There will be no escaping the problems ...

Zurich manager wins Aon Benfield Scholarship

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2009
Victor Caballero of Zurich Financial Services has won the Aon Benfield Scholarship for 2009 - a joint scholarship from the Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Aon Benfield Australia. Caballero, segment development manager at Zurich ...

Let them have soup

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
... of 0.5 per cent and 1.5 per cent, respectively. The realisation that even the central banks of Europe, like the Fed and the BoJ, would soon be pushing on a string - if not already - was further hammered home by the ECB's downgrading of its growth estimate ...

Nationalisation - that ugly word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
... European banks' loans and investments in the east. In Asia, with no more room to move on monetary policy, the Bank of Japan (BoJ) plans to expand measures to advance corporate funding by outright purchases A-rated corporate bonds held by banks. This ...

The biggest loser

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2009
... as the central banks of the United States, Japan and the United Kingdom. The US Federal Reserve's and the Bank of Japan's (BoJ) official policy rates are now virtually zero. The Bank of England's (BoE) base rate is headed that way. The ECB has so far ...

Worst of the worst

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
... asset-backed securities and syndicated loans. These will be funded by the sale of UK gilts. And just like the Fed and the BoJ, it would soon find itself with interest rates at zero. Next week's MPC meeting, where the BoE is expected to bring interest ...

2009: The lost year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2009
... the Group of 10 central bankers. Trichet told the central bankers in attendance - which included the Fed's Ben Bernanke and BoJ Governor Shrirakawa - that the global slowdown was a result of the negative feedback loop between the financial markets and ...

October mourn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2008
... quarter. And the scramble to contain the global recession was on. Asian central banks and governments acted. The Bank of Japan (BoJ) cut its benchmark interest rate to 0.3 per cent - the first since March 2001 - from an already low 0.5 per cent. The ...