Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 781 - 790 of 823 results for "Central banks"

This Week's Market Movers (14-18 July 2008)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2008
... market activity this week. Governor Stevens is expected to focus on the policy dilemma currently facing most major central banks of the world, that of slowing growth and increasing inflationary pressures. While official inflation figures are undoubtedly ...

Trouble at Threadneedle Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2008
... In the coming months, the BoE will continue to thread a fine line in response to the dilemma facing other major central banks, that of rising inflation and slowing growth. With the deterioration in UK economic activity gathering pace, it is more likely ...

Asia will weather global slowdown: EFIC

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2008
... growth is rising food and fuel prices, not the global credit crisis or declining exports. "Until recently, most central banks were taking a wait and see position - hoping the food and fuel price increases would be one-off jumps, rather than escalating ...

Lazard appoints Asia MD

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2008
... Lazard Asset Management's global and regional strategies to Asian based professional investors across pension funds, central banks, sovereign wealth funds and financial institutions. In addition, he will open the firm's Hong Kong office as Lazard Asset ...

Let the sub-prime post-mortem begin

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2008
... Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash by Charles R Morris, is that while central banks try to moderate money supply to suit economic conditions, investment banks on the other hand tend to expand credit supply ...

Time to get radical: IMF

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
... systems and securities markets failed simultaneously, he said. But what's worrying the IMF even more is that solutions central banks have been putting in place may be setting the scene for follow-up problems that just reinforce the situation we are trying ...

Central banks try again to lift liquidity

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2008
Several of the world's most prominent central banks, led by the US Federal Reserve, overnight announced details of the latest scheme - basically looser lending, by them, to select counterparties - that they hope will help revive liquidity in interbank ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2008
... the Federal Reserve said it would inject up to $US200 billion into tight credit markets in coordination with other central banks around the world. The Dow Jones industrial average jumped 416.66 points, or 3.55 per cent, to 12,156.81 and the Standard ...

Marsupials and the money market

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2008
... are now at a four year and almost all time high after this morning's US rate rise, putting even more pressure on central banks around the world to follow suit irrespective of local fundamentals. The US rate drop to just 3 per cent lifts the gap Australia ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2008
... people start focusing on the solution to this and not the problems, and the solution being taken by the various central banks and the US Federal Reserve on interest rate movement, it will start to stimulate a bit more confidence back into the economy ...