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Value a plus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 JAN 2011
... announce that it is lifting the reserve requirement for its large commercial banks and the Bank of Thailand and the Bank of Korea both raising their policy interest rates. More are expected to follow. However, these do not readily imply that portfolio ...

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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