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Bad news bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2011
... when interest rates will rise because of escalating inflationary pressures. Financial markets now expect the European Central Bank, for instance, to raise interest rates in August - yes, this year - after ECB council member Yves Mersch declared that ...

Headlining the core

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2011
... increase in VAT, sterling's past weakness and rising commodity prices. This echoed his next-door neighbour's - the European Central Bank - view that the recent resurgence in headline inflation is due to higher energy and food prices which are expected ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 FEB 2011
... per cent. In foreign exchange trade, the euro ran into profit-taking ahead of an interest rate call from the European Central Bank (ECB), and fell further thereafter, suggesting markets had curbed expectations of a rate hike early this year. The shared ...

Haste makes waste

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 JAN 2011
... strategist, Francesco Gazarelli, is singing the same tune. In an interview with Bloomberg, he predicts that the European Central Bank (ECB) will start raising interest rates in the "October-December period," because "What seems to be holding the ECB's ...

Winter wonderland

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2010
... last week that its purchasing managers index continued to expand. "Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow." The European Central Bank's announcement that it would provide unlimited liquidity to governments and financial institutions and backed it with ...

ECB relents, sort of

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
Why bring a rocket launcher to a fight when a BB gun would suffice. This must be what European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet last night when he announced only "small" measures to battle ongoing financial market tension in the Eurozone. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2010
... been buoyed by better than expected manufacturing data out of China, positive comments from the president of the European Central Bank and strong private sector employment data in the United States. "They're the three flashpoints of the world economy," ...

Open fire roasted bears

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2010
... HSBC's PMIs for India, South Korea and Taiwan also showed manufacturing expanding in these countries. Two: The European Central Bank would do what it takes to preserve the euro-bloc - even if it has to go back on its commitment to withdraw "exceptional" ...

ECB to QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 NOV 2010
... We're still here! If they - them that don't have the wherewithal to print money - survived, what more Europe? The European Central Bank can print money at will just like the Fed. You can worry all you like, but look at the end game. And the end game ...

Turkeys, PIGS and Koreans

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2010
... big to bail (out). The Financial Times Deutschland reported that most other governments in the eurozone and the European Central Bank are already pressuring Portugal to accept a bailout - much like a sacrificial lamb to save Spain. Lisbon officials naturally ...