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Beggars at war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2014
... pushed the ECB to declare that it could be going to war next month by promising it would do something to ease monetary policy - conventional or otherwise. The good news is that these indicate that central bank policies would remain accommodative for ...

Action! in June

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014
European Central Bank president Mario Draghi appears to have dragged out his promised action on monetary policy long enough. While the ECB announced no changes in monetary policy after its Governing Council meeting last night - the benchmark rate at ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014
... one point at 5,460. In economic news on Friday, the Reserve Bank of Australia releases its latest statement on monetary policy. RBA assistant governor (financial markets) Guy Debelle is scheduled to participate in a panel discussion at a Women in Banking ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2014
... higher following Wall Street's gains on mixed economic data and corporate earnings as a two-day US Federal Reserve monetary policy meeting got underway. At 0805 AEST on Wednesday, the June share price index futures contract was was up 19 points at 5,496. ...

Japan's 1997 deja vu

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
... 'Abenomics' and widespread expectations that the Bank of Japan (BOJ) would eventually announce further expansion of monetary policy, Japan's stock market continues to trend lower. The Nikkei-225 index has sunk by 11.4% so far this year plagued by the ...

Dumping dear momos

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
... inputted in the National Accounts? It is an addition to GDP. Overlayed in all these good news are the central banks' monetary policy actions, "forward guidance" and what have you's. The Fed and the BOE have already altered their thresholds so they have ...

BOE has a problem to smile about

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
... expected to do what the ECB and the BOJ and the Fed did before it when it meets tomorrow night - that is, keep monetary policy steady as she goes and of course... provide "forward guidance". The only difference is that BOE Governor Mark Carney's ...

The art of fighting without fighting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... expected the European Central Bank (ECB) to announce that it's 24-member Governing Council has decided to ease monetary policy in the region this day. It doesn't matter what form it takes - negative deposit rates, offer new long-term loans to European ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014
... director of Marblehead Asset Management. LONDON - Europe's main stock indices inched higher, a day before a key ECB monetary policy meeting, helped by data showing a pickup in US job creation. London's FTSE 100 rose 0.10 per cent to close at 6,659.04 ...

Better than good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
... extending monitoring to qualitative measures and "real people behind the statistics", etc. - suggest that easy monetary policy would stay not till the economy comes good but... if it comes better than good.