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Wall Street snubs the IMF

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2014
... rise by just 1.6% this year and 1.7% the next. What do we get when we get benign inflation? We get accommodative monetary policy for longer, that's what we get.

Governments are 'out of money': Hockey

AAP, PETER TRUTE  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014
... gathering of 400 business chiefs from the world's biggest economies. "How can we have a growth agenda with tightening monetary policy and tightening fiscal policy? "Governments have run out of money to fund the infrastructure needs that the community ...

Yellen yawn turn to Yellen yikes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2014
... deviate much - if at all - from her rhetoric of days gone by - when she delivers her semi-annual testimony on US monetary policy before the US Congress. And Janet Yellen didn't. We've heard it all: "Although the economy continues to improve, the recovery ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2014
... thanks to the weaker yen, with investors largely unmoved by the Bank of Japan's expected decision to stand pat on monetary policy. Seoul jumped 0.94 per cent, or 18.84 points, to end at 2,012.72 and Sydney closed flat, edging down 0.1 points to 5,511.3. ...

Run with bulls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... Economic and Monetary Affairs at the European Parliament in Strasbourg that, "We will maintain a high degree of monetary policy accommodation. In view of the outlook for inflation, we will keep the key ECB interest rates at current levels for an extended ...

Mission accomplished?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2014
... is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting..." -- Walt Whitman "The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee at its meeting today voted to maintain Bank Rate at 0.5%. The Committee also voted to maintain the stock of purchased ...

Fed alert to market reaction to Fed action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2014
... FOMC took care not to spook markets and/or accounted for likely market reaction. For example, on the topic of "Monetary Policy Normalization", yup they're considering it but... it lest it spook the markets, add in "this topic was undertaken as part of ...

But they said it was Iraq

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
... improvement won't be good enough for the Fed. As long as US economic growth remains not good enough for the Fed, monetary policy would remain good for markets. Lest you, I and Irene forget, Aunt Janet is still printing US$45 billion this month and would ...

Good or bad, it's all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
... Governor Kuroda san. He told the Japan Association of Corporate Executives that the BOJ will continue to "pursue monetary policy management on its own accord to achieve the price stability target of 2% at the earliest possible time" through QQE (quantitative ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... cental bank's monthly bond-buying, known as quantitative easing (QE), and maintain its "highly accommodative" monetary policy of record-low interest rates. Policymakers added in an upbeat statement that US economic growth "has rebounded in recent months" ...