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Company sales earnings on hold till 2011: Zurich

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2009
... while found in pockets of the country such as Western Australia, would not be a national issue but called upon the central banks worldwide to help prevent asset price bubbles. "Central banks around the world have to focus on asset price bubbles and they ...

Small thanks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2009
... IMF - is offering to buy the 201.3 tonnes remaining in the IMF's coffers. But with the US dollar in decline, other central banks are looking to increase their reserves too. Think China. Think Japan. Think Russia. And all other central banks which are ...

Yamashita's treasure

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2009
... fees. Demand and supply, remember? Gold has come a long way from being an unloved asset. In the late 1990s, world central banks were even asked - nay, begged - to stop unloading their gold holdings to prevent the price from collapsing. Central banks ...

Mickey money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2009
... now equities would continue to rise and they will not die of old age. We have to wait until the Fed - and other central banks - to kill it. With interest rates at record lows, it may take awhile and so many arrows (rate hikes) before equities expire. ...

Weight in gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2009
... night, it was not only the Fed the bears have to deal with, they have to take on the entire G-20 Treasurers and Central Banks - except perhaps for the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA). Have no fear, the G-20 is here! Wall Street rallied last night following ...

Stuck at zero

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2009
... stimulation, all it can do now is issue more Treasuries - borrow more. But with the US dollar on a trend decline, foreign central banks might not be willing to invest their money in a 'dud' investment. Make it attractive by offering higher rates? Sure ...

Doom dollar

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2009
... after this space commented on the risky proposition of holding US dollars, Bloomberg reports overnight that world central banks are diversifying out of the greenback. Data compiled by Bloomberg revealed that central banks have backed up their threat ...

The shrinking big dollar

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2009
... when) interest rates will rise, the US dollar's decline was 'temporarily' short-circuited by intervention from Asian central banks (again). South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia and Hong Kong bought the greenback to avoid being 'beggared' ...

Bears cursed by September curse

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2009
... August. Mixed signals such as these would continue for a few months more. What is encouraging is that governments and central banks would not let up until the negatives in the mix all turn positive. The bears were the ones cursed in September.

Liquidity flow versus trade flow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2009
... of falling Libor rates - is evidence that the money flooded into the system by government stimulus packages and central banks' interest rate reductions and quantitative easing had their desired effect. The Libor rate on 3-month US dollars has now fallen ...

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MLC slips global shares into neutral, hits gas on alternatives

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