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Rate cut would do little to help economy: WAM

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016
... would prefer to see the RBA sit tight." Kirkham notes there has been a global realisation of the overuse of quantitative easing (QE) as a number of economies come to the extreme point of QE and deep negative territory, highlighting a need for fiscal ...

Brexit - the Australian connection

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2016
... Bank of England (BOE) to lower interest rates from the current 0.5% to zero (or below) and/or reintroduce quantitative easing. Other central banks would follow if only to keep their exchange rates competitive. Lucky the RBA still has scope to cut interest ...

Investors face 'radical uncertainty': PIMCO

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2016
... even negative policy rates in many countries, the gusher of liquidity administered by major central banks via quantitative easing, and the debt financed investment boom in China and some other emerging market economies." PIMCO's baseline case is that ...

New ETFs launched to cater for BOJ stimulus

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2016
... vanilla" market, the Financial Times reported. The aims of the policy are twofold: help Japan's deflation busting quantitative easing programme and further Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's growth programme by investing in companies that increase workers' ...

He pleaded, he promised, he threatened

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2016
... and promised - the BOJ still has plenty of options to ease policy and will act if it becomes necessary. "The quantitative easing, the qualitative easing, the negative interest rate - these are the three dimensions where we can act." Kuroda san threatened ...

RBA envy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2016
... again, that the RBA has done what the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of Japan (BOJ) - with their quantitative easing and negative interest rates -- could only aspire to... a lower currency to boost growth and defeat deflation. Perhaps, like ...

Further monetary stimulus risks woeful asset returns

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2016
... Milligan suggests. "Policy makers around the world are debating whether the normal rules of interest rates and quantitative easing have come to an end," he continued. "Of course monetary policy can do more but if it is going to we need to start worrying ...

BoJ now top 10 shareholder in 200 stocks

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2016
... by the end of 2017. The BoJ has been left with little choice but to invest in stocks having already pursued quantitative easing via bond purchases and also negative interest rates. "To critics already wary of the central bank's outsized impact on the ...

Janet's words stronger than BOJ and ECB bazookas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2016
Quantitative easing. Negative interest rates. Quantitative and Qualitative easing with a negative interest rate. All of the above plus promises of more. The European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) big bazookas proved no match for US ...

A "chilling" moment for the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 FEB 2016
... It has become necessary given that its first foray into negative interest rates - expanding qualitative and quantitative easing into "quantitative and qualitative easing with a negative interest rate" - flopped. The yen rose and the Nikkei-225 index ...