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Help is on its way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2014
... imagine the central bank heads (and government authorities) of member euro nations humming, "he's sexy and he knows it". Super Mario's speech said it all. Help is on its way! His speech laid the final groundwork for action in June! What Super Mario said ...

Growth and consequence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2014
... action... but as I said before, after having seen the Staff projections that will come out in early June." Yes Virginia, Super Mario added an escape clause -- "after seeing Staff projections" - but the latest economic growth update on the single currency ...

Action! in June

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014
... were looking at what sort of contingencies would require action now or later on... All instruments were discussed." Super Mario must be super worried if he's breaking his standing policy - and that of his predecessor, Jean-Claude Trichet's (still remember ...

ECB to stay in May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014
... "low-flation". The ECB targets 2.0% inflation. It was precisely this threat of "low-deflation" turning into de-flation that Super Mario hinted at doing a QE only last week. "The objective here would not be to defend the current stance, but rather to ...

Bouncy bouncy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014
... activity early in the year." That takes care of "improving US fundamentals". And what about CB commitment? I have Super Mario to thank for staying my day of crucifixion for this. Phew! In one of the clearest signal yet that it's about to act, ECB chief ...

The art of fighting without fighting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... don't know of you still recall - 48.60% back in March 2012. A lotta brave investors made a lotta serious dinero here! Super Mario might have said thanks but no thanks to IMF's Lagarde's prescription but he looks to be applying that other super hero's ...

Counting up and counting down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
... tightening of monetary policy as well as eroding euro exporters' international competiveness. Not surprising that Super Mario's erecting a fence - trying to jawbone the euro down by repeating his pledge that interest rates will remain low for an extended ...

Greece what?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013
... news, it's no longer news. No one seems to be worried about Greece these days - or not since September last year when Super Mario unveiled his secret weapon - the OMTs. Except for the Greeks, that is. They're still begging for bailout. Earlier this week ...

Lotsa data but no game change (yet)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2013
... sure, like they won't and risk re-starting the crisis again). However, the bestest news would have to be ECB President Super Mario's repetition of his commitment to lower for longer interest rates. "The exit from our monetary policy stance being accommodative ...

Breaking the bad in the eurozone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2013
... point interest rate reduction last month that took interest rates to an all-time low of 0.50%. It could be due to Super Mario's Outright Monetary Transactions (OMTs) programme that's designed to eliminate the tail risk from the market. It could be both. ...