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Depression no more?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2008
... France, Britain, Spain, Austria, Italy, the Netherlands and Portugal. In addition, the US Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, the Bank of England and the Swiss central bank will now auction unlimited dollar funds as against their previous capped ...

The global recession we have to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2008
... efforts to stem the global panic. The US Federal Reserve lowered the fed funds rate to 1.5 per cent, the European Central Bank dropped its repo rate to 3.75 percent, the Bank of England cut its base rate to 4.5 per cent, the Bank of Canada to 2.5 per ...

Fed on Zero Interest Rate Policy?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2008
... impact of the credit squeeze. Last night, Germany announced plans to insure all private deposit accounts; the European Central Bank decided to loosen its securities quality rules to facilitate the bailout of German firm Hypo Real Estate; the government's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2008
... markets fell on Thursday following disappointing economic data from the United States and a decision by the European Central Bank to maintain interest rates at current levels. In London, the benchmark FTSE 100 index dropped 89.3 points, or 1.8 per cent ...

Dec 2007 redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2008
... effort to address the liquidity crisis and stabilise the financial markets. The US Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, the Bank of Canada and the Swiss National Bank agreed to jointly inject more than US$100 billion into ...

Look out below

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2008
... consortium of 10 major US banks pledged to make US$70 billion available, and extra liquidity injections from the European Central Bank, the Bank of England and the Swiss National Bank, failed to stem the financial market panic. Consensus has shifted ...

Whac-a-mole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2008
... unchanged from the initial estimate - for a year-on-year rate of 3.8 per cent. This is still way above the European Central Bank's (ECB) target of 2 per cent and therefore leaves little scope for an immediate rate cut by the inflation-conscious ECB. ...

Stagflation policy conundrum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2008
... conditions are worsening and the banking system as a whole remains short of capital.' The same goes for the European Central Bank. In its monthly report, the ECB acknowledge that economic growth in the Eurozone would be weak in the second half of 2008 ...

This Week's Movers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2008
... Australia (RBA) cut its benchmark interest rate last week. The Bank of Canada, the Bank of England and the European Central Bank kept monetary policy unchanged. The downtrend in commodity prices continued last week, pulling down resource and energy companies. ...

US payrolls jitters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2008
... could reveal a result worse than the already severe 75,000 fall expected. Meanwhile, the outcome of the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of England's (BoE) monetary policy meetings produced no real surprises for the financial markets. As expected ...