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The real problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
... to raise the fed funds rate sometime soon. This is bad for some, but good for the "others" - specifically, those central banks that want all other currencies more expensive than their own - those in the race to the bottom. As at last count, around 24 ...

A win-win currency war?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
... started its exponential climb. We all know why? The US is "expected" to raise interest rates one day while the other central banks are still on the race to the bottom with the ECB and the BOJ digging even deeper and the BOE continues to maintain the ...

It might just be a matter of time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015
... neighbours. The very same reason for the on-going race to the bottom among many - and still counting - other world central banks as they try to export their weak economic and deflationary conditions to Uncle Sam. Well, Bob's your uncle... it's working ...

PBOC to QE?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
... even below Premier Li's new like - growth of 7.0%. Is China about to QE fire with QE of its own? Actions by other central banks may have left it no choice. It's losing the currency war. Much had been reported about the rise and rise of the US dollar ...

You sexy thing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
... 1.9%; the S&P 500's down 1.7% -- gives substance to the "beggar-they-neighbour" rant I've been ranting since world central banks started handing out surprise easing policies, one after the other, this year - some even going for a double-dip. The thing ...

The die is cast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2015
... regulatory rules, pension funds that need to match their liabilities, passive investors who track debt indexes, and other central banks, which buy European securities as part of their balance-sheet management (Bloomberg)" and we have even greater demand. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2015
... $US1.0849, compared with $US1.0842 late in New York on Friday. The Frankfurt-based ECB announced it and the national central banks of the euro area have started buying 60 billion euros ($A84 billion) worth of bonds per month in the long-awaited purchase ...

My QE, your problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015
... 160 bps lower from the beginning of 2014. But in this world of competitive currency devaluations - "At least 21 central banks have eased monetary policy this year", the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) reports (to which, permit me to add, some have already ...

I cut, you cut, I cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2015
... prettied by an ugly Australian dollar. But here's the rub, Australia's neighbours know that drill too. Not a few central banks have and/are engaging in Newton's third law of motion - "for every action there's an equal and opposite reaction" - some more ...

Mind over matter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2015
... because markets have already yielded to the prospect that US interest rates are set to rise this year and that other central banks have already made preparations for the eventuality. This is indicated by the expanding number of central banks announcing ...

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