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

Search Results

Showing 491 - 500 of 516 results for "The European Central Bank"

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAY 2006
... US, particularly in light of expectations of forthcoming interest rate hikes by the Bank of Japan and the European Central Bank. Foreign investors in US securities are currently being hammered on two fronts - rising US bond yields and a depreciating ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2006
... taking the region's year-on-year growth to 2.0 per cent. The expansion increases the likelihood that the European Central Bank (ECB) will raise its benchmark repo rate sooner rather than later. Meanwhile, recent rhetoric from ECB officials indicates ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2006
... spreads with financial markets assuming that the Fed is nearly finished with its tightening campaign and the European Central Bank (ECB) and Bank of Japan (BoJ) are just getting started withdrawing policy accommodation.

Daily Economic Update

... monthly decline. Higher energy costs, the high rate of unemployment, an expected additional rate hike from the European Central Bank (ECB) and a looming increase in Germany's value added tax (VAT) contributed to the drop in confidence. After successfully ...

Daily economic update

... The total number of commitments, excluding refinancing increased by 1.2 per cent. In overseas news, the European Central Bank (ECB) kept interest rates unchanged at 2.5 per cent as expected following its Council meeting last night. What was not expected ...

Daily economic update

... funds rate only last month to a seven-year high of 4.75 per cent and is expected to raise rates further. The European Central Bank has also lifted rates and speculation is it would do so again next month. Japan has removed its quantitative easing policy ...

Daily economic update

... 54.5 in the previous month. The PMI is a reliable leading indicator of Eurozone growth and confirms the European Central Bank's outlook for stronger activity in the region. This, combined with inflation that remains above the ECB's target ceiling, gives ...

Weekly economic round-up

... dominates this week's financial market activity with Reserve Bank of Australia, Bank of England and the European Central Bank meetings to deliberate on their respective interest rate settings. The end of last week's financial market activity also marked ...

Daily economic update

... to its highest level since 1991. The resurgence in German confidence is increasing expectations that the European Central Bank (ECB) would raise interest rates again as early as May.

Daily economic update

... Rising producer prices are yet to pass through into higher prices for consumer goods in Germany. But the European Central Bank (ECB) would want to pre-empt any upward movement in CPI inflation by lifting rates anew. The ECB has already increased rates ...