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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.

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
... Investors are also heartened by comments from Fed Chair Janet Yellen on Monday that suggest no "abrupt" change to US monetary policy that has been supporting the economy, Hogan said. Finally, while geopolitical tensions over Ukraine remain high, they ...

The waiting game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2014
... Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and the European Central Bank (ECB) would do after they met and deliberated on monetary policy this week... and Japan and China and America. It's easy pickings for the RBA. Governor Glen would more likely than not... not ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014
... three-week low against the dollar on heavy selling after the European Central Bank hinted at a further loosening of monetary policy in the eurozone to avert deflation, traders said. HONG KONG - Asia's markets were mixed, with Japanese shares boosted ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014
... several days of weakness. He said European markets recorded the strongest gains, thanks to speculation of looser monetary policy from the European Central Bank. "That's really fired up European investors," he said. Mr McCarthy said an improvement in ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014
... Street and European markets which rebounded on regional economic data and European Central Bank talk that looser monetary policy could be in the offing. At 0810 AEDT on Wednesday, the June share price index futures contract was up 19 points at 5,357. ...

Whatever works

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2014
... before, that's what. Go back to exports... An exchange rate depreciation is, after all, a de factor loosening of monetary policy and it would help lift China's export competitiveness. World Bank figures show that while the government has succeeded in ...