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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" ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2014
... ultra-low interest rates has boosted the local share market. US markets reacted positively to the Fed Reserve's monetary policy announcement, with the S&P 500 index hitting a new record. "The US central bank has said the weaker than expected US economic ...

The kindness of central banks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2014
... to intensify preparatory work related to outright purchases in the ABS market to enhance the functioning of the monetary policy transmission mechanism." The ECB's recent policy action has taken us back to the "bad news is good news and good news is good ...

Everything but the kitchen sink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... to intensify preparatory work related to outright purchases in the ABS market to enhance the functioning of the monetary policy transmission mechanism." And here in lies the rub-a-dub-dub, the ECB could be in tub. That promise of QE - that it would be ...

Waiting for the ECB to exhale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... coming back to save the eurozone. The European Central Bank (ECB) could be announcing something (anything) to ease monetary policy when the Governing Council meets two days from now on the June 5th. Inflation's crying for action. Eurostat's preliminary ...