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Chief economist update: Prudence, patience and persistence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
... recent data indicate that the single currency area's growth momentum is slowing down. This isn't lost on ECB President Mario Draghi. While Draghi offered a sober assessment in his monetary policy statement, "incoming information since our meeting in ...

Chief economist update: The euro's doing Trump's work in the Eurozone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2018
... temporary exemption to EU, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico and South Korea until May 1 - ECB President Mario Draghi said that while the central bank remains confident that inflation would eventually rise to the ECB's target of "below but ...

Chief economist update: The key to ECB taper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 FEB 2018
Not a single soul could argue with ECB President Mario Draghi's assessment that "euro area economy is expanding robustly" and neither with his self-congratulatory remark that "our measures have put the euro area economy on a solid growth pathway, driven ...

Chief economist update: Euro's uptrend is a downtrend risk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2018
While none expected a change in monetary policy, not a few anticipated ECB president Mario Draghi to deliver a less dovish message (at the very least) after the European Central Bank's first governing council meeting for 2018. Perhaps, the underlying ...

ECB schedules taper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2017
... (ECB) October monetary policy meeting ended financial market speculations over its QE exit strategy. ECB president Mario Draghi did what he telegraphed he would -- discuss QE unwind strategy in October - and offered something better - a clearer path ...

GSFM scores major alternatives partnership

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2017
... owning alternatives; the demand is only going to increase as more people appreciate their benefits," he said. Since Mario Draghi "rang the bell in 2012 and asserted to do anything it takes to save Europe," he added, equity markets have been firmly in ...

Euro strength is a source of weakness

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 SEP 2017
It didn't happen overnight, but it did happen. European Central Bank president Mario Draghi's concern over the impact of the euro currency's appreciation, that is. Recall that the ECB had been conspicuous in its silence about the euro since its 20 July ...

ECB disengages from currency war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2017
... the A$ (up 9.4%), the NZ$ (up 5.4%) and the rupee (5.9%). Yet, the European Central Bank (ECB) and its president Mario Draghi have so far been conspicuous in not voicing out their trepidation over the euro's sharp appreciation. Unlike in previous episodes ...

Australian end of financial year sale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017
... But that may take longer than financial markets' expectations du'jour. This is because of still low inflation. The ECB's Draghi explicitly stated at his Q&A forum of his June press conference that the bank's objective is "an inflation rate of close to ...

Eurozone gaining momentum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2017
... ECB is concerned about the durability and sustainability of inflation. This was explicitly stated by ECB president Mario Draghi, in the Q&A forum of his June press conference: "The four conditions are in the definition of our objective, which is a durable ...