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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2016
... Mario Draghi stressed that, "looking ahead, taking into account the current outlook for price stability, the Governing Council expects the key ECB interest rates to remain at present or lower levels for an extended period of time, and well past the horizon ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2016
... increased by 28.0% year-on-year last month while those in Beijing rose by 18.3%. Eurozone inflation After the ECB governing council met and kept policy unchanged last month, ECB president Mario Draghi remarked that the current policy is working but that ...

Four bazookas and a phrase

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2016
... and "...are intended to run until the end of March 2017, or beyond, if necessary, and in any case until the Governing Council sees a sustained adjustment in the path of inflation consistent with its aim of achieving inflation rates below, but close to ...

Did ECB under-deliver or markets over-expect?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2015
... markets have been eagerly awaiting (and rubbing their palms at the same time) this meeting - the 3 December ECB Governing Council meeting - ever since the ECB President promised at his 22 October press conference in Malta that, "The degree of monetary ...

Super Mario returns fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
... end-September 2016 "or beyond, if necessary" - and that, "we'll closely monitor all incoming information and the Governing Council wanted to emphasise in the discussion we had today its willingness to act, its readiness to act and its capacity to act ...

The man with the golden jawbone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... sustainable inflation path toward 2 percent... There should be no ambiguity on the willingness and ability of the Governing Council to act if needed." BOJ governor Haruhiko Kuroda is scheduled to speak today and more likely than not, he'll be echoing ...

One down, two to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
... minutes of the European Central Bank's (ECB) 15-16 July meeting revealed the three things that are keeping the governing council members awake at night - Greece, China and the Fed. While the ECB maintained that growth in the region would recover modestly ...

Plus ca change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... without saying how it got the information." Then this by Bloomberg on the 12th of the same month: "The ECB's Governing Council held a phone conference Thursday to raise the allowance for the Greek central bank to provide Emergency Liquidity Assistance ...

Tug o' currency war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015
... June," It's just for the summer.A Then again, maybe not... if you heard what French central bank chief and ECB governing council member Christian Noyer's comment. "The purchase program will continue until the end of September 2016 and beyond if we do ...

Super Mario delivers huge stimulus package

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015
... "Bang" is more apropos in this context, so I'm keeping it - officially launched QE following its 22 January Governing Council meeting. Decisions, decisions: "First, it decided to launch an expanded asset purchase programme, encompassing the existing ...