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Good news in inaction

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2009
... witnessed the kind of central 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? ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2009
... 24.10, or 1.32 per cent, to 1,850.02. LONDON - Europe's leading stock markets ended virtually flat after the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of England held interest rates steady, with the ECB forecasting a eurozone contraction of 4.6 per cent ...

Let them have soup

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
... 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 cent, respectively. The realisation ...

Nationalisation - that ugly word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
... weekend to discuss a coordinated pan-European response to the global financial crisis and 'encourage' the European Central Bank (ECB) for further monetary policy aid. The meeting became particularly crucial after Moody's reported that eastern Europe ...

The biggest loser

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2009
... non-the-brighter. But while the central banks of the US, Japan and the UK raced to the zero interest rate line, the European Central Bank (ECB) appears seemingly nonchalant perhaps applying the 'Tortoise and the Hare' principle where 'slow and steady ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2009
... interest rates by half a percentage point to a fresh historic low of 1.0 per cent to battle recession. The European Central Bank held rates steady at 2.0 per cent, but analysts forecast another cut next month. London's FTSE index rose a fractional 0.01 ...

Bad tidings we bring

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2009
... suggests that the BoE would soon go the way of the Fed by enacting its own policy of quantitative easing. The European Central Bank (ECB) is expected to cut rates by 50 bps to 2 per cent this week. A bigger-than-expected rate cut should not be discounted ...

Scary Money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2008
... early this week, central banks in the land of Europa executed their own move towards zero last night. The European Central Bank turned on the aggression, slashing interest rates by 75 basis points to 2.5 per cent after cuts of 50 basis points each in ...

Mine's bigger than yours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
... that in a period of just a month, the BoE has taken interest rates down by 200 basis points and below the European Central Bank's policy rate of 3.25 per cent. Partial fourth quarter indicators and anecdotal evidences suggest that further weakness lie ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2008
... Bank of England slashed its key lending rate by a record 1.5 percentage points to 3.0 per cent while the European Central Bank cut its main lending rate by half a percentage point to 3.25 per cent. London's FTSE 100 index of leading shares lost 258.32 ...