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Modi under the spotlight

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
... difficult to act." A winner amid Asia deflation Falls in energy prices and Asia's central banks' links with the US Federal Reserve are sending deflationary winds to the region. Lawson noted that countries such as India or Korea should benefit from the ...

Overseas investors flocking to Australian bonds

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2015
... pricing that in and that means there are challenges for the future," Gartside said. Miller agrees, predicting the Reserve Bank of Australia will drop interest rates by at least 50 basis points before year's end. Miller also believes the Aussie dollar ...

It might just be a matter of time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015
... since - and this doesn't track those that have already double-dipped like the People's Bank of China (PBOC) and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). Competitive devaluation is a zero sum game... unless, of course, we find life on the moon, on mars or another ...

No board meeting necessary

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2015
... last month and November 2014's easing when the PBOC cut the one-year benchmark lending rate from 5.9% to 5.6%. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) followed with its own - but not the 'kinder surprise' version - putting a stay on interest rates against ...

China easing a tailwind for A-share market

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
... several years and past economic cycles in China," Iwanicki said just days after China's central bank lowered lenders' reserve ratio by 50 basis points in a move to inject more liquidity into the Chinese economy. "Traditionally in China liquidity found ...

When Harry met Sally syndrome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
... Bank jumpstarted it all with its "surprise" decision to abandon its CHF1.20/euro peg. This was the same time as the Reserve Bank of India's surprise (because it was handed down 2 weeks before its scheduled meeting) rate cut announcement. Then it was ...

Central bank surprises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2015
... the Swiss National Bank (SNB) stomp the CHF1.20/euro line in the sand it drew way back in September 2011 and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) lower its key interest rates last week. This week opened with the Danmarks Nationalbank - Denmark's central bank ...

That other surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2015
... negative interest rates to even more negative. It also overshadowed another unexpected central bank policy move. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cut its key interest rates by 25 bps each - the repo rate to 7.75%, the reverse repo rate to 6.75%, the marginal ...

A BRICS R5 Bank is born

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2014
... - Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa - has just built what I call the "R5 - renminbi, rupee, rubble, real, rand - Bank". Which bank? The "New Development Bank" which the BRICS launched yesterday. According to BBC, "Its main function would be ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2014
... Monday, the June share price index futures contract was up one point at 5,406. Locally, in economic news on Monday, Reserve Bank of Australia assistant governor (Economic) Christopher Kent delivers a speech to the Wall Street Journal's Labour Market ...