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PineBridge enjoys strong inflows in EM debt

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
... patterns - they're not as normal as you'd like them to be - and in some ways, that has driven up prices." That said, central banks have responded to this by tightening their monetary policies. "In that sense, we think a lot of the bad news we read about ...

Unknown unknowns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
... the greater the toll on Japan, its economy, its people and the financial markets, the greater the likelihood that central banks will be pumping more money into the financial system. Stay safe people of Japan.

Hitting a BRIC wall

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... contrast to the very low interest rates and quantitative easing programs currently engaged in by developed nations' central banks. The recent rise of food and energy prices - commodities that constitute a greater proportion spending in emerging markets ...

Bank blocks pension gold

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 21 FEB 2011
... governments. "To protect against the euro uncertainty SPVG has chosen to invest in gold. This is the same argument of central banks and IMF to hold large gold positions," SPVG said in a statement. In 2009 SPVG sold off its 17 per cent investment in equities ...

Trouble not terribly troubling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2011
... world economic growth to 4.4 per cent this year and 4.5 per cent in 2012. Ahh, but with growth comes inflation. Central banks are going to be raising interest rates soon - those in the emerging markets have already been doing this since last year -- ...

Headlining the core

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2011
... by 1.5 per cent in January - more than the expected 0.8 per cent increase. Rising inflation poses a dilemma for central banks. They're unable (unwilling?) to risk raising interest rates to combat inflation while their economic recovery remains fragile. ...

I heart the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
... Representatives Standing Committee on Economics last Friday. Mr. Stevens has every right to gloat. His is one of the central banks in the world - perhaps the only one - that has succeeded in managing every central banks' twin objectives of low unemployment ...

Inflated inflation scare

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
... increases of individual prices. We do not produce oil. Nor do we grow food or provide health care... Emerging market central banks have the capacity to deal with inflation in their own economies." In a way, this is everybody's fault. The Fed's for unleashing ...

Haste makes waste

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 JAN 2011
... monitors near you at about this time last year. Yes, my dear Virginia, the film, "The Fed and other developed country central banks will start withdrawing policy - possibly as early as the second half of this year - on indications of stronger economic ...

Value a plus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 JAN 2011
... that of China, India, Brazil and Asian countries. This positive force is now coming under threat as emerging market central banks tighten their respective monetary policies to control rising inflationary pressures. The first month of 2011 is still not ...