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Easier for as long as necessary?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2016
... and their boards met to discuss money policy. While the Bank of Japan (BOJ) and the Bank of England (BOE) kept monetary policy unchanged - and despite at differing stages in their economic cycles - both offered soothing words. The BOJ could "decide to ...

Data says not yet but what would Janet say?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2016
... markets as focus turned to the Fed's FOMC meeting which started overnight. While the Fed is not expected to alter monetary policy at all at this month's meeting, there's a niggling sense of anticipation of what Janet's forward guidance would contain ...

No tears for China's disappointing data

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2016
... will meet its economic growth target over the next five years (this again is 6.5%-7.0%). And that, "Excessive monetary policy stimulus isn't necessary to achieve the target... If there isn't any big economic or financial turmoil, we'll keep prudent monetary ...

Four bazookas and a phrase

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2016
... drop in the euro immediately following the ECB's announcement pooh-pooh recent concerns over the effectiveness of monetary policy (it worked). And the subsequent reversal? Well, if anyone bothered to read Mario's full statement on the matter, it made ...

RBNZ cuts rates, biased towards further easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2016
... that the New Zealand central bank will keep interest rates unchanged after this morning's board meeting. In its monetary policy statement, the RBNZ explained its decision as prompted by the deterioration in the global outlook since December, increased ...

With pretty numbers like these, who needs a rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2016
... improvement in trade deficit. As I've ranted many, many times before... the A$ depreciation is a 'de facto' easing in monetary policy and it's working. The problem now is that Australia's good tidings are sending the A$ back up again. This is compounded ...

Another standout economic performance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2016
... growth in the economy, with inflation close to target. The Board therefore decided that the current setting of monetary policy remained appropriate."

Crouching services, contracting manufacturing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2016
... this meeting while at the same time announcing stimulus measures to achieve this target. As well as the usual monetary policy accommodation measures, markets expect the government to announce some fiscal easing - i.e. letting the budget deficit (estimated ...

A "must do" for the ECB

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2016
... all but ensured that ECB President Mario Draghi will make good on his 21 January promise to "...reconsider our monetary policy stance at our next meeting in early March" aka increase policy stimulus. Financial markets expect the ECB to announce another ...

A "chilling" moment for the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 FEB 2016
... and wait should be what the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) would be doing when its Board meets for its regular monetary policy deliberations tomorrow. Not an "expert" soul expects a shift in policy at this meet but a few anticipates a move down sometime ...