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The BOJ's boring Halloween

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2017
... treats: As expected, it kept policy unchanged - interest rate at -0.1%; 10-year JGB yield target at around 0% and asset purchases at annual pace of ¥80 trillion - and promised that "the Bank will continue with "Quantitative and Qualitative Monetary ...

ECB schedules taper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2017
... rate at -0.4% -- and will keep them there "for an extended period of time, and well past the horizon of the net asset purchases" as widely expected. The ECB also provided clear guidance on QE: "purchases under the asset purchase programme (APP) will ...

Euro strength is a source of weakness

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 SEP 2017
... widely a schedule (at the very least) of a QE unwind, note that the ECB's missive is that €60 billion monthly asset purchases "are intended to run until the end of December 2017, or beyond, if necessary, and in any case until the Governing Council ...

The growth-inflation divide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2017
... Japan (BOJ) kept monetary policy settings unchanged - discount rate at -0.1%; 10-year JGB yield target at 0%; asset purchases at an annual pace of ¥80 trillion -- at the conclusion of its 26-27 April meeting. In the accompanying "Outlook for Economic ...

Low-flation at the core

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2017
... at 0%, deposit rate at -0.4%, marginal lending facility at 0.25% -- while at the same time confirming that its asset purchases of €80 billion per month will run until March, before lowering it to of €60 billion a month starting April and run until ...

Three for three

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2017
... committee met on the 2nd of February. The BOE kept policy setting unchanged -- Bank Rate at a record low of 0.25% and asset purchases at 435 billion. Like the BOJ, the British central bank upgraded its 2017 growth outlook to 2.0% from 1.4% and the unemployment ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2016
... kept its monetary policy unchanged - repo rate at 0%; deposit rate at -0.4%; marginal lending rate at 0.25%; and asset purchases at €80 billion until the end of March 2017 - at the conclusion of its 8 December governing council meeting. However, the ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2016
... lending interest rates were unchanged at minus 0.4% and 0.25%, respectively. The central bank also maintained its asset purchases at €80 billion per month and confirmed that this is "intended to run until the end of March 2017, or beyond, if necessary". ...

Central bank Olympics - the race is on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2016
... policy unchanged - refinancing rate at 0; deposit rate at minus 0.4%; marginal lending facility at 0.25%; monthly asset purchases of €80 billion are intended to run until the end of March 2017 "or beyond". The decision not to do anything is not because ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2016
... monetary policy committee meeting post-Brexit -- where it left the Bank Rate unchanged at 0.5% and maintained its asset purchases at £375 billion In its statement, the BOE declared that, "In the absence of a further worsening in the trade-off between ...