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Central banks still got their mojo

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2016
... nearly 2% with bank shares rocketing by 7.0% after the BOJ gifted the markets with a "New Framework for Strengthening Monetary Easing: "Quantitative and Qualitative Monetary Easing with Yield Curve Control" alongside not taking interest rates further ...

Christmas in September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2016
... 21st of September. Santa Kuroda delivered the initial cheer with its announcement of a "New Framework for Strengthening Monetary Easing: "Quantitative and Qualitative Monetary Easing with Yield Curve Control"" (https://www.boj.or.jp/en/announcements/release_2016/k160921a.pdf) ...

DTCC to cut GTR fees

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2016
... (GTR) service. The costs associated with using the service will drop by up to 20% for clients leveraging the solution for Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and ASIC transactions, with total saving for each client dependent on volume and/or commitment ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2016
... a day earlier points to a near-term improvement. Japan trade balance While the world awaits the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) monetary policy decision, freshly-released trade data confirms speculations that the Japanese central bank will announce further easing ...

The twenty-first night of September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2016
... matter whether it's by chance or by design but both the US Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan will announce their monetary policy decision on 21 September. Nothing wrong with that... except that the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker expect ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2016
... Central Bank (ECB) kept policy unchanged at its September Governing Council meeting - the fifth straight month of unchanged monetary settings. The repo rate remained at 0% while the deposit and lending interest rates were unchanged at minus 0.4% and ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2016
... (ABS) report show that the RBA governor's constant nagging may have finally gotten through to the government (because monetary policy can only do so much) with fiscal spending adding significantly to overall second quarter growth -- government consumption ...

Negative rates can generate positive returns

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2016
... its investment portfolio in fixed income with the view it diversifies against equities and prepares for ongoing global monetary policy shifts. The fund's head of investment strategy, Damian Lillicrap, said QSuper is no longer willing to hold the countries ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2016
... decline. UK consumer confidence The Brits appear to have shaken off their Brexit woes (for now?) and that the BOE's recent monetary policy easing had been timely and effective. The GfK consumer confidence index improved to minus 7 in August from -12 ...

Yellen speaks Fedspeak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2016
... things, so many words (3,555 words including sub-headings to be exact) in her prepared remarks at the "Designing Resilient Monetary Policy Frameworks for the Future" symposium at the Hole. I started a joke... But of these 3,555 words, someone latched ...