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Lesson in expectations management

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
... at how deftly Fed Chair Janet Yellen pulled lift-off off - more so, if viewed in contrast with the ECB President Mario Draghi's disastrous handling of his own "policy announcement" on 3 December. The Fed's decision to take the fed funds rate off virtual ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2015
... to modest-to-moderate growth during April and May after stalling in the first quarter of the year. ECB President Mario Draghi praised the bank's stimulus policies and said there were no plans to end them more quickly than planned. "As long as you have ...

The die is cast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2015
... what Julius Caesar exclaimed when he crossed the river Rubicon back in 49 BC. The same phrase that ECB president Mario Draghi must be uttering to himself as he began spending the first euro of his a,-60 billion a month quantitative easing programme today. ...

Deflation is the Darth Vader of the economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
... dissipate". This gave me an eerie sense of dA(C)jA vu. For it was around this time last year, in Davos, that ECB president Mario Draghi also poo-poohed the risk of deflation. This was Rueters' headline on 24 January 2014, "ECB's Draghi doesn't see deflation ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
... for the first time in more than two years to boost sagging economic growth. Also, European Central Bank president Mario Draghi signalled on Friday that new stimulus measures were being prepared to boost the flagging eurozone economy. CMC Markets chief ...

Santa came to town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2014
... whispering hope and financial markets welcomed his voice. Speaking in Frankfurt, European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi promised that the ECB would "do what we must to raise inflation and inflation expectations as fast as possible." "If ...

A trillion euros is in the mail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014
... expected a,-1 trillion expansion in the European Central Bank's (ECB) balance sheet has just become fact - ECB President Mario Draghi promised - and it's unanimous. Most would have probably read the ECB statement by this time - and the various spins ...

New masters of universe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
... In fact, the ECB is set to announce the details of its recent policy easing measures later tonight. ECB president Mario Draghi only last night reiterated his pledge "...to deliver our most important commitment, which is to bring inflation back close ...

Easy money to fill in the slack at the Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
... underutilisation of their respective labour markets. There is nothing wrong with this. It makes sense. For as ECB President Mario Draghi eloquently laid out in his opening address: "No one in society remains untouched by a situation of high unemployment. ...

Not that time yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014
... monetary policy transmission mechanism." These were the words that came out of the European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi's lips barely two months ago, straight after the ECB announced a 10 bps reduction in the repo rate to 0.15% and a 10bps ...