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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2016
... target. BOE on hold The Bank of England (BOE) sat on its hands and kept policy unchanged - Bank rate at 0.5% and asset purchases at £375 billion - on 16 June as it waited for the outcome of the 'Brexit referendum' scheduled to be held on the 23rd of ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2016
... announced no change in monetary policy settings - repo rate at 0%; deposit rate at -0.4%; lending rate at 0.25%; asset purchases of €80 billion per month to run until March 2017 - while at the same time confirming the commencement of corporate bond ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 APR 2016
... rates "to remain at present or lower levels for an extended period of time, and well past the horizon of our net asset purchases". Draghi stressed that the ECB's policies work and are effective, "Just give them time to fully display their effects". Riksbank ...

Infrastructure Capital Group targets $1bn for asset purchases

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2016
Fund manager Infrastructure Capital Group (ICG) is looking to raise $1 billion from domestic and international institutional investors to add quality established infrastructure businesses and new development projects to its mid-market infrastructure ...

We've got the power and firepower (still)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2016
... Japan when it announces its policy decision tomorrow (15th). Some expect the Japanese central bank increase in its asset purchases to ¥90 trillion from ¥80 trillion and at the same time take interest rates deeper into negative from 0.1% to 0.3%. However ...

Four bazookas and a phrase

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2016
... 0.25% from 0.30%; deposit rate taken further negative to -0.40% from -0.30%. QE increased and end was opened. Asset purchases raised to â,¬80 billion monthly from â,¬60 billion and "...are intended to run until the end of March 2017, or beyond, if ...

Did ECB under-deliver or markets over-expect?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2015
... asset purchase programme extended by six months to March 2017 (markets expected open-ended time frame); size of asset purchases maintained at €60 billion a month (markets expected an increase); reinvestment of principal payments (ala Fed) and expansion ...

December moves

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2015
... now debating what form it'll take. Financial markets expect a reduction in the deposit rate and an increase in asset purchases. It's as certain as sure that the Fed will lift its fed funds target rate by the 16th of December given recent Fed rhetoric ...

Christmas in October

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2015
... early Xmas present to the markets. The only question is the form - NIRP, increase in the €60 billion per month asset purchases, expansion of list of assets the ECB would buy, lengthening of QE beyond September 2016, or medley of these measures - it'll ...

One down, two to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
... record lows and the central bank continuing to flood the market with liquidity with its a,-60 billion monthly asset purchases, the underlying trend is towards continued moderate improvement in the economy. This is affirmed by the latest Markit Economics' ...

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