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Cycling up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 FEB 2011
... businesses temporarily closing and applicants staying at home because of the snow dumped in the Midwest and the South to New England during the time the employment survey was taken. It was the weather that was unexpected! The fact is both camps are dissecting ...

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 ...

Money, money, money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2010

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 ...

Grand currency sale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 OCT 2010

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 ...

The man who broke the pound retires

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 20 AUG 2010

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 ...

The Fed did it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2010
... doctor ordered". But not now. Now we're in big trouble. United Kingdom. In its quarterly inflation report, the Bank of England said that the country's economic recovery would be slower than previously expected. The BOE now expects growth to peak at 3 ...