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Central bank Olympics - the race is on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2016
... deteriorating fundamentals have to keep on running just to stay still. It jumped the gun, announcing an "enhancement" of monetary easing after its 29 July meeting. While the Japanese central bank kept its policy rate at minus 0.1%, it increased the size ...

Standard Life Investments calls for more monetary easing

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2016
Standard Life Investments chief economist Jeremy Lawson has called on governments to ease monetary policy further in light of some worrying structural trends which he said were amplified by the result of the UK's referendum on EU membership. Lawson ...

New ETFs launched to cater for BOJ stimulus

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2016
... fund management industry is launching exchange traded funds to cater specifically for the central bank's massive monetary easing programme. Three new "physical and human capital" ETFs are designed solely for the Bank of Japan, which needs fresh assets ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2016
... slowing since December last year. The latest inflation data left markets still divided on the need for further PBOC monetary easing. The upcoming updates on retail sales, fixed asset investment and industrial production - due out over the weekend - could ...

Look up in the sky, it's the yen

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2016
... (BOJ). Despite the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) latest policy initiative - termed "Quantitative and Qualitative (QQE) Monetary Easing with a Negative Interest Rate" - announced following its 28-29 January Board meeting, the Japanese currency remained strong. ...

Asia: Between fortune and fate

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... pressure. Its GDP has been remarkably flat over the next twenty years." However, the introduction of Abenomics and monetary easing has brought to Japan "something of a turnaround in the best managers of Japanese reflation. Normal GDP has started to increase ...

Easing cycle over for now

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015
The Reserve Bank's two-pronged monetary easing measures look to have come to an end but our central bankers will remain watchful of the currency, according to Goldman Sachs Asset Management executive director and global fixed income portfolio manager ...

Round and round we go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
... rates by 25 bps to a 6-year low 0.5% also brings us back to early this year. Remember the series of "surprise" monetary easing moves by one central bank after the other during the first few months of 2015? The BOC's latest move could re-start another ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
... the Nikkei reversed initial losses caused by profit-taking as investors bet on the Bank of Japan announcing more monetary easing, while the yen sits around 12-year lows against the US dollar. On Monday the US dollar was at Y124.20 in Tokyo against Y124.12 ...

Market set for a fairly flat open

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015
... Reserve will hike interest rates by the end of the year while Japan's central bank is tipped to embark on more monetary easing to kickstart a soporific economy. WELLINGTON - A rebound in Spark New Zealand's share price from a year-low has helped the ...