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The man with the golden jawbone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... long ago - when the S&P 500 dropped by 7.4% between mid-September to mid-October 2014 - but that time it was Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis president James Bullard who played the knight in shining armour. As MarketWatch reported on 16 October 2014 ...

A$ falls to the occasion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
... young lady, one you, I and Irene can be thankful for, and that is the Australian dollar is falling. Hip, hip... The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has found itself engaged in this new currency war - triggered by China's recent devaluation of the yuan ...

Australia: which way now?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2015
... their currencies. We can blame it on the Rio... but it could never, never be us. For, according to the minutes of the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) August Board meeting, "Domestically, economic activity had generally been more positive over recent ...

Easing cycle over for now

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015
The Reserve Bank's two-pronged monetary easing measures look to have come to an end but our central bankers will remain watchful of the currency, according to Goldman Sachs Asset Management executive director and global fixed income portfolio manager ...

Indian economy accelerating/slowing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015
It wasn't only the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) that didn't surprise with its unchanged policy decision yesterday, that other reserve bank did too. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced no change in policy settings following the conclusion of ...

RBA to deliver nothing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2015
Our very own Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will hold its monthly Board meeting today to deliberate on the economy's monetary policy setting. This month looks easy-peasy for the RBA. Keep the official cash rate steady at 2.0% plus a few minor tweaks ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
... Friday, the September share price index futures contract was up nine points at 5,623. In local economic news on Friday, Reserve Bank of Australia is due to release financial aggregates for June while the Housing Industry Association trades report for ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2015
... on Thursday, the September share price index futures contract was up 33 points at 5,606. In local economic news, Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens is speaking at the Boao Forum for Asia Financial Cooperation Conference in Sydney. The Australian Bureau ...

RBNZ tries to turn the turn in NZ economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2015
... from there. At the end of last week's trade the NZ$ was buying 9.1% less A$ (A$0.9036). What gives? What gave it the Reserve Bank of New Zealand's two interest rate reductions in two consecutive policy meetings - 25 bps reductions each - on 11 June and ...

A question of trend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
... Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) CPI report for the June quarter has heated up speculations of whether or not the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) would cut interest rates once (or twice?) more. First the stats: annual headline CPI inflation was ...