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In it to win it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2012
... with speculations that Spain would soon need to be bailed, does it? Then again, perhaps it does. But then there'll be the ECB, the EU and the IMF to the rescue. And speaking of the IMF, it'll soon have bigger resources to fight the good fight. IMF chief ...

Dip buyers buy the dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2012
... index read 26.04 - which itself is not alarming. Financial markets weren't that spooked then because the spook spurred the ECB into action and introduced the LTRO, it did so again last month and it would do so again when the going gets tougher. China's ...

Best friends forever

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012
... China to cut its bank's reserve requirement by 50 basis points within this coming week. And of course, we already know the ECB also stands at the ready with Executive Board member Benoit Coeure - the person in charge of market operations - announcing ...

The Fed, the ECB and the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2012
... Board member Benoit Coeure - the person in charge of market operations -- to tell the world that if it becomes necessary, the ECB still had the Securities Market Programme (SMP) in place that would allow it to purchase government bonds from euro area ...

Bring it on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2012
... 6.71% (Spain) and 7.29% (Italy) reached last November. You know the one -- the one that prompted the European Central Bank (ECB) to implement its long-term re-financing operation (LTRO) in December and focused European finmins minds to bring forward ...

Can't lose

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2012
... Spanish and Italian bond yields bounced back up last week and just yesterday, reports showed that Portuguese banks demand for ECB funding increased to 56.3 billion in March - more than the record 49.1 billion it asked for last August 2010 -- from 7.5 ...

QE going, going ...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012
... sold less bonds than targeted and at higher yields at last night's auction -- and German calls for the European Central Bank (ECB) to prepare an exit strategy because of rising inflation there. But has the market suddenly become so fearful again? Don't ...

Where now brown cow?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2012
... household spending." What's not factored in are the upside surprises we've become witness to over the past few months. There's the ECB revising its growth outlook for the euro zone - it now sees the region contracting by only 0.1% (instead of its original ...

When optimism rains, it pours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2012
... This was the level before the letters G-F-C stood for the Geelong Football Club. And why the heck would it not? Although the ECB admits that the Eurozone would experience a technical recession it would only be a mild - a very mild - one. That expected ...

Greece still matters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2012
... better-than-expected 1.6% in January from the previous month's 2.6% drop. But whatever they are, they're sufficient for the ECB to revise its growth outlook - it now sees the Eurozone economy contracting by 0.1% instead of 0.3% this year before accelerating ...

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