Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 491 - 500 of 818 results for "Central banks"

Bond experts reiterate need for flexible duration strategy

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2014
... to a number of fixed income experts. Interest rates in many countries reached historical lows in recent years as central banks aggressively cut rates in the wake of the global financial crisis. While this was a boon for bond investors, signs of economic ...

100% steady on the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2014
... US$0.8689. But while the economic landscape has not moved much over the past month, there have been sea changes in other central banks' policies since the RBA's October meeting: The European Central Bank (ECB) announced the operational details of asset-backed ...

Global deflation - the next worry?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2014
... with excess capacity running in many developed economies... and combined with still weak demand. Have no fear, the central banks are here. They are printing and reflating. But... but, they have been at it since almost forever - five years and going (forever?). ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2014
... per cent in the prior three days. LONDON - Europe's main stock markets pushed upwards, helped by speculation that central banks may take further stimulation measures and put off rate hikes to support global economic growth. London's benchmark FTSE 100 ...

US$200b a quarter to keep the bulls going

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014
... (the spread of it), the IMF, ISIS, Putin, oil, earnings, technicals, etc, etc etc. And then they hit... hard -- the central banks' jawbones, that is, whispering mo' money. And now Houston, we have lift off and volatility is nearly half (16.27 this morning ...

Jawbone collection

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2014
... again. "I get knocked down but I get up again, you're never going to keep me down". Nah Virginia, the world's biggest central banks didn't lift a finger, they merely used their collective jawbones to do the scaring away of the spooks over world growth ...

Volatile like its 2011

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
... day, the policy responses of 2011 are instructive. When worse became worst that year, six of the world's biggest central banks - US Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, Bank of Japan, Bank of England, Bank of Canada, Swiss National Bank - announced ...

Un-taper re-reflate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
... be "exceptionally patient" on rates lift off. Has the Fed lost its mojo? And for that matter, all the other major central banks on the planet... them who promised to do "whatever it takes"? I must admit that while it was easy to cry "buy them dips, buy ...

Are we there yet?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2014
... scenario. After all, markets rallied back to life thereafter... with Fed help (QE4 anyone?). More ominous is that central banks have lost credibility to reflate their respective economies... in which case, the bear (market) could be lurking just around ...

I wish I may, I wish I might

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014
... tepid with geo-politics, geo-health providing downside risks; the greater the threat to growth, the less appetite central banks (Fed and BOE) to normalise monetary policy or provide more stimuli (ECB and BOJ and PBOC) until the risks go away and economies ...