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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 ...

Mine's bigger than yours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
Slashers. This is what most central banks around the world have become as their respective economies appear oblivious to the myriad of rescue packages and the amount of money that is already flooding the system. The dire straits the global economy is ...

Humpty Dumpty Syndrome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2008
... products at home and abroad. Not when the world population's general wealth is shrinking. National governments and central banks have pulled out all the stops to try and reverse - or at the very least limit the potential damage - the ongoing economic ...

October mourn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2008
... contraction in the US economy in the third quarter. And the scramble to contain the global recession was on. Asian central banks and governments acted. The Bank of Japan (BoJ) cut its benchmark interest rate to 0.3 per cent - the first since March 2001 ...

The luckier country

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2008
... indications that the credit squeeze is beginning to loosen. Even more encouraging is that national governments and central banks continue to devise new measures in order to get credit flowing again and bring back the normal functioning of the financial ...

Period of cleansing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2008
... jobs. This will remain the state of play in the financial markets for a while. Unless one or two governments or central banks somewhere commits a major policy blunder, the Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU) believes that the sell-off in the ...