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Irrationally exuberant greater fool

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2009

Add £50b, will travel

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2009

Good news in inaction

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2009
... bank activity displayed last week. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), the European Central Bank (ECB), the Bank of England (BoE) and the Bank of Canada (BoC) all held monetary policy meetings last week. And guess what? Not a single central bank announced ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open little changed following a mixed lead from US stocks. Gold miners are likely to gain after the price of the precious metal increased. At 0747 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures ...

The light, the light

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2009
... way to the UK. Yields on long-term UK gilts rose after its debt auction failed to attract enough buyers. Like the Fed, the BoE is also buying long-term gilts outright. Like the Fed, it can't do it alone and need buyers. So what's the verdict - daylight ...

The power of optimism

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2009
... summit over the weekend. The reason why Japan 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) ...

Let them have soup

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
... Japan drowning. Another reason for last night's sell-off is heightened fears over Europe's future after the Bank of England (BoE) and the European Central Bank (ECB) each cut interest rates by 50 basis points to record lows of 0.5 per cent and 1.5 per ...

Nationalisation - that ugly word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
... Affordability and Stability Plan (HASP). And it wasn't just the US doing the heavy lifting. The minutes of the Bank of England's (BoE) February meeting - where the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) voted 8-1 to cut interest rates to an all-time low of ...

The biggest loser

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2009
... 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 only reduced its benchmark repo rate by 225 basis points from the cycle ...

Worst of the worst

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
... fall to historical lows as in the US. In efforts to stop the hemorrhage, like most other central banks, the Bank of England (BoE) has brought its base lending rate to 1.5 per cent as 2008 became 2009. This level of interest rates has not been seen before ...