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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 ...

Punting on next week

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2010
... RBA plays scrooge - it'll up interest rates next week. It always baffles me when financial markets speculate on central banks' decisions based on one figure and a dated one at that. If it were this simple, anyone could be a central banker. Inflation ...

CFS GAM makes a case for raising govt debt

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2010
... forcing up interest rates. Halmarick rejects the crowding out thesis, arguing that superannuation funds, foreign central banks, and local banks could easily absorb increased bond issuance without pushing up borrowing costs. Only 2 per cent, or less than ...

Bad, bad day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
... uncertainties that are still out there on the table for everyone to see. To remind every one of what governments and central banks are fighting against. One thing's for sure, central bank money would continue to flood the system until economic recovery ...

QE2 or bust

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
... trying to address it." So now all we have to do is sit, relax and wait for QE2 to sail our way. The Fed and other central banks would now come to fill in for the job that the bond vigilantes prevented their fiscal counterparts from completing. Yes, I ...

Australia's big bro

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 OCT 2010
... Australian dollar is now heading towards parity with the big dollar. China is one of the major reasons why despite the central banks of the larger economies of the US, Japan and Europe are still far from contemplating raising interest rates, the Reserve ...