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Nationalisation - that ugly word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
... weekend to discuss a coordinated pan-European response to the global financial crisis and 'encourage' the European Central Bank (ECB) for further monetary policy aid. The meeting became particularly crucial after Moody's reported that eastern Europe ...

The biggest loser

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2009
... non-the-brighter. But while the central banks of the US, Japan and the UK raced to the zero interest rate line, the European Central Bank (ECB) appears seemingly nonchalant perhaps applying the 'Tortoise and the Hare' principle where 'slow and steady ...

Bad tidings we bring

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2009
... that the BoE would soon go the way of the Fed by enacting its own policy of quantitative easing. The European Central Bank (ECB) is expected to cut rates by 50 bps to 2 per cent this week. A bigger-than-expected rate cut should not be discounted given ...

Scary Money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2008
... points each in October and November proved impotent in restoring the flow of credit and reviving confidence in the economy. The ECB has never reduced interest rates by this much since its creation a decade ago. The Bank of England lopped off 100 basis ...

Soup for Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2008
... billion by the Bank of England, $120 billion by the Bank of Japan, $15 billion by Danmarks Nationalbank, $240 billion by the ECB, $15 billion by the Norges Bank, $30 billion by the Reserve Bank of Australia, $30 billion by the Sveriges Riksbank, and ...

Whac-a-mole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2008
... from the initial estimate - for a year-on-year rate of 3.8 per cent. This is still way above the European Central Bank's (ECB) target of 2 per cent and therefore leaves little scope for an immediate rate cut by the inflation-conscious ECB. Just last ...

Stagflation policy conundrum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2008
... banking system as a whole remains short of capital.' The same goes for the European Central Bank. In its monthly report, the ECB acknowledge that economic growth in the Eurozone would be weak in the second half of 2008 as domestic and foreign demand ...

US payrolls jitters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2008
... could reveal a result worse than the already severe 75,000 fall expected. Meanwhile, the outcome of the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of England's (BoE) monetary policy meetings produced no real surprises for the financial markets. As expected ...

Three steadies and a cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2008
... week. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), The Bank of Canada (BoC), the Bank of England (BoE) and the European Central Bank (ECB) will each decide their respective economies' interest rate settings but only the RBA is expected to lower rates, the rest ...

Bad news galore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2008
... Central Bank Governing Council member Yves Mersch hinted at new funding pressures for European banks, commenting that the ECB will announce changes to the rules pertaining to its money market operations that will tighten collateral conditions to prevent ...