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Investors face 'radical uncertainty': PIMCO

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2016
... because of "zero or even negative policy rates in many countries, the gusher of liquidity administered by major central banks via quantitative easing, and the debt financed investment boom in China and some other emerging market economies." PIMCO's baseline ...

Minutes to disaster

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2016
... tsunami) in other economies. In as much as higher US rates would lift the greenback, it would be a positive for central banks trying to boost their economies or inflation or both such as the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of Japan (BOJ). It ...

Further monetary stimulus risks woeful asset returns

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2016
Central banks are running out of road. If governments ask them to continue down the path of previously unthinkable monetary policy without implementing fiscal policies of their own, there are likely to be severe unintended consequences for the global ...

May sell may go away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2016
... had been becoming impotent of late. The yen and the euro have both appreciated versus the greenback despite both central banks' efforts to weaken them... and I can't see this state of affairs reversing until the Fed - or expectations of the Fed - reverses ...

No more tears?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2016
... include 'Brexit', geopolitical tensions and IS terrorism....and the gloomier of them all was the nagging thought that central banks' policy largesse are becoming an exercise in futility. All these are in the past. The Fed changed the dynamics in March ...

Economic uncertainty demands agile insto investment

WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2016
New Research from State Street shows 'official institutions' like sovereign wealth funds (SWFs), central banks and government pensions are adapting their investment and operating models to be more agile. Titled 'Transforming to Meet the Needs of a New ...

Janet's words stronger than BOJ and ECB bazookas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2016
... January). Latest stats and survey releases underscore why, in the words of RBA deputy director Philip Lowe, "Most central banks would like lower currencies..." The latest US non-farm payrolls report showed employed increased by a higher-than-expected ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2016
... purchases of industrial machinery and equipment, transport equipment, telecom equipment and electrical machineries. Central banks dumping US treasuries Foreign governments are dumping US debt like never before, according to reports from CNN Money. They ...

Easier for as long as necessary?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2016
Funny that. For all the recent rhetoric and commentaries that central banks have become impotent, financial headlines continue to be dominated by the latest policy movements -- or lack thereof -- and current thoughts of, well, central bankers. Such ...

We've got the power and firepower (still)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2016
Despite deteriorating market confidence and doubts over central banks' firepower and ability to influence market moods and outcomes, the events of the past week showed that CBs are anything but powerless. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand's (RNBZ) unexpected ...