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Smaller QE2 is not all that bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2010
... devaluation/intervention/manipulation competition. Here are the snippets from Bloomberg: "Asian currencies fell to a one-week low after Bank of Korea Governor Kim Choong Soo said today that measures to mitigate capital flows could be "useful." Hours ...

Bad tidings we bring

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2009
... rising currency. Elsewhere in Asia, the central banks of Indonesia, Taiwan and South Korea cut interest rates. The Bank of Korea reduced interest rate to a record low of 2.5 per cent early in 2009 - the fifth in three months - in its bid to avert a recession. ...

October mourn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2008
... (zero interest rate policy) until 2006 when it was certain that the economy was on a sustainable growth path. The Bank of Korea held an emergency meeting and reduced its key interest rate by 75 bps to 4.25 per cent and announced that it will accept a ...
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