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Water, water everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
... bottom line is that the British central bank decided to keep interest rates unchanged at 0.5% and maintain its asset purchases at A£375 billion. Yeah, yeah, sure, sure... the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker already expected that. What's ...

Australia sings hallelujah

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
... April, car dealers expect the Budget's small business initiatives - mainly allowing the immediate write-off of asset purchases costing up to A$20,000 - to boost sales. And then, there's the not so small case of lower interest rates. Happy consumers makes ...

BOE no change, no worries

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2015
... previous change in Bank Rate was a reduction of 0.5 percentage points to 0.5% on 5 March 2009. A programme of asset purchases financed by the issuance of central bank reserves was initiated on 5 March 2009. The previous change in the size of that programme ...

I cut, you cut, I cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2015
... recently announced that it'll be patient for a little while longer (and still re-investing the proceeds of its asset purchases), the Bank of Japan (BOJ) that's in the midst of QE or the European Central Bank (ECB) that's about to kick-off its QE, perhaps ...

Super Mario delivers huge stimulus package

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015
... Governing Council decided that purchases of securities of European institutions (which will be 12% of the additional asset purchases, and which will be purchased by NCBs) will be subject to loss sharing. The rest of the NCBs' additional asset purchases ...

A trillion euros is in the mail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014
... "Together with a series of targeted longer-term refinancing operations to be conducted until June 2016, these asset purchases will have a sizeable impact on our balance sheet, which is expected to move toward the dimensions it had at the beginning of ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2014
... Composite Index fell 15.07 (0.33 per cent) to 4,549.23. The Fed, as expected, declared the end of six years of asset purchases to shore up economic growth. The Fed also said it would not raise interest rates for "a considerable time" after the end of ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014
... Open Market Committee's decision on interest rates and an announcement on when it will end of its tapering of asset purchases.

The good oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2014
... Reuters that, "If we really get a sustained, disinflationary forecast... then I think moving back to additional asset purchases in a situation like that should be something we should seriously consider".

Super Mario dropkicks markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
... policy accommodation Eurosystem collateral framework is guiding principle for eligibility of assets for purchase Asset purchases to start in fourth quarter 2014, starting with covered bonds in second-half of October But, but... but the one detail that ...