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No minute message in FOMC minutes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... minutes revealed that while members have started deliberations toward normalising monetary policy - read, raising interest rates from abnormally low levels - this wouldn't be happening anytime soon. And - once the decision's made -- we would be given ...

May day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
... because investors' ignored China's higher-than-expected inflation reading and the threat of its central bank raising interest rates some more? Same news different spins -- all because of differing market actions. The sagging earnings that took US equities ...

Budget bore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... higher interest rates. Look at what's happening in China, India and other emerging countries. They've been raising interest rates almost forever to try to bring down inflation. Heck, even the European Central Bank - with all its problems and all - have ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
... early gains spurred by a Wall Street rally after Fed chief Ben Bernanke said the bank had no timetable for raising interest rates. The news from the Federal Reserve, however, sent the dollar tumbling against the euro although it held up against the yen ...

Let's party!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2011
... by several Fed members preferring an early end to QE2 and/or ending the bond purchase programme and/or raising interest rates, there were no dissenters in last night's FOMC vote - zilch, nil, nada. Kansas City Fed President Thomas Hoenig had objected ...

Been there, done that

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
... terms of its bailout, whispered to total around 80 billion euros. Oh yes, there's also the issue of the ECB raising interest rates by 25 bps to a whopping 1.25 per cent. Been there, done that! There was Fed rhetoric overnight. Fed Vice Chairman Janet ...

Tightrope walker

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
... previous year - 11.8 billion pounds in Feb 2011 from 9.5 billion pounds in Feb 2010. The BOE could not risk raising interest rates to fight inflation while ignoring growth. Doing so endangers whatever economic improvements have been achieved to date. ...

Pain sans hysteria

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2011
... expect an interest rate hike to follow as Beijing continues to rein in growth to slow inflation. Speaking of raising interest rates, the Reserve Bank of India did just that last week. It raised the repo rate by 25 bps to 6.75 per cent and the reverse ...

Trouble not terribly troubling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2011
... this year and 4.5 per cent in 2012. Ahh, but with growth comes inflation. Central banks are going to be raising interest rates soon - those in the emerging markets have already been doing this since last year -- and all those QE's would be withdrawn. ...

Headlining the core

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2011
... cent increase. Rising inflation poses a dilemma for central banks. They're unable (unwilling?) to risk raising interest rates to combat inflation while their economic recovery remains fragile. Alrhough this is not the case for China. There's also the ...