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Confidence yardstick rises

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
... in July to 48.2 points last month. But the turnaround in confidence comes at a time when most, if not all, of the Central Banks around the world have lowered interest rates or handed hundred-billion dollar bail-outs to the financial sector, particularly ...

Cognacs and chocolates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2009
... have been Hillary?' The multi-billion dollars worth of stimuli, measures, handouts and packages already spent by central banks and national governments around the world - and more to come - may not have the immediacy the global financial community is ...

2009: The lost year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2009
... million dollar (trillions of dollars in the case of the US) question of whether the aggressive interest rate cuts by central banks around the world and the fiscal stimuli by national governments would eventually succeed in reviving confidence and put ...

Bad tidings we bring

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2009
... proved for sure that it was. Data coming out of the US, Europe and Asia were all worse than expected. As in 2008, central banks scrambled to contain the fallout by reducing interest rates. First off the rank this year is the Bank Of England (BoE) which ...

China syndrome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2008
... of the world. This could bring about a nasty turn of events. Just as the lenders of last resort - the major world central banks - are running low on ammunition, the consumer of last resort is now sputtering. Exports account for around 40 per cent of ...

Scary Money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2008
And the race is on -- the race to zero interest rates. The way major central banks are going, benchmark target rates could hit the big fat 0 before Easter 2009. Following the Reserve Bank of Australia's 100 basis point interest rate reduction early ...

Mr. Scrooge's Ghosts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2008
... Banks/financial institutions collapse. Credit crisis. Financial markets plunge. Government Treasuries and major Central Banks flood the system with liquidity. Economies contract, workers lose their jobs, businesses lose sales, businesses shut. Economies ...

Four Bad 'Bers'

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2008
... grown-ups, will discover that Santa is not real and that their stockings remain filled with toxic debts. This week the central banks of the Eurozone, the United Kingdom and Australia will meet to deliberate on monetary policy settings for their respective ...

G20 to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2008
... capital? Equity markets are down. Bond and money market spreads are wide. The money thrown by national governments and central banks are being hoarded. Lending restrictions are tight. Again, what capital? The same problems that afflict the economic factors ...

The good oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2008
... from paper clips to Boeing 747's come down. Suddenly inflation has become the dog with no bark. These have given central banks worldwide scope to implement precedent-setting interest rate reductions over the past few months. Given the still fragile state ...