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Eurozone ascending

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2017
... - economic activity in the single currency area have gaining momentum. This is a fact not lost on ECB president Marion Draghi who declared after the bank's Governing Council meeting in April that, "It's true that growth is improving, things are going ...

The CPI report that confirms all biases

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2017
... annual energy and unprocessed food price inflation, with no signs yet of convincing upward trend in underlying inflation". Draghi's statement was quickly validated by annual core inflation figures easing to its lowest reading in 11 months of 0.7% in ...

The prescience of Super Mario

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2017
... problem with this is that stronger economic growth has so far not translated into higher inflation and as ECB president Mario Draghi noted in the March governing council meeting, rising headline inflation mainly reflected "strong increase in annual energy ...

ECB nips the bud of rate hike speculations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAR 2017
... the 9 January meeting - speculations gathered greater momentum after a sentence was deleted out of ECB president Mario Draghi's "Introductory Statement". "If warranted to achieve its objective, the Governing Council will act by using all the instruments ...

Trump is heaven's gift to central banks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2016
... March, Fed Chair Yellen stated that, "It certainly would be helpful to see fiscal policy play a larger role." ECB president Draghi had for a long time been asking governments for support with increased spending and looser tax policies. BOE governor Carney ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2016
... or beyond, if necessary. When ask about the recent speculation about the ECB's tapering in his Q&A, ECB president Mario Draghi replied that this wasn't discussed at the meeting - "We haven't really touched on the issue at all". US existing home sales ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2016
... 1.3% next year and 1.6% in 2018 - both unchanged from its March forecasts. In his press conference, ECB president Mario Draghi stressed that, "looking ahead, taking into account the current outlook for price stability, the Governing Council expects the ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2016
... 18.3%. Eurozone inflation After the ECB governing council met and kept policy unchanged last month, ECB president Mario Draghi remarked that the current policy is working but that "we must be patient". That patience might have just ran out with the final ...

May sell may go away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2016
... expected to announce more largesse. Instead, we got BOJ governor Haruhiko Kuroda doing an impression of ECB president Mario Draghi. "There's absolutely no change to our stance of aiming to achieve two percent inflation at the earliest date possible ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 APR 2016
... corporate bonds under the corporate sector purchase programme (CSPP). In his introductory statement, ECB president Mario Draghi announced that the ECB expects interest rates "to remain at present or lower levels for an extended period of time, and well ...