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Chexit, Checcident and Chimbo

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2015
... high"... sir. This is precisely what's happening now. The government has announced measures defending the stock market - the PBOC cut interest rates (again) and the reserve requirement ratio (again) at the end of June; it's provided liquidity for margin ...

Dear mom, all's good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2015
... better, better. Commodity prices are picking up - iron ore's up 1.2%, oil's up 0.9% and copper's up 0.2%. This, because the PBOC did it again. The Chinese central bank announced a 25 bps reduction in its benchmark one-year lending rate to 5.1% over the ...

May Day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015
... quarter growth. A sooner-rather-than-later - while the BOJ and the ECB are just in the early stages of their QE programmes, the PBOC's gearing up on expansionary policies and many other central banks around the globe are in easy/easing policy mode - ...

A$ at 80c

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015
... government's most important economic-rescue initiatives get off the ground". Citing unidentified officials, the WSJ reports that the PBOC "will allow banks to swap local-government bailout bonds for loans". This would give the Australian dollar an extra ...

The bad and the bad and the bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
... leverage risks and introduce shorts should temper the rate of price increases in the stock market going forward but with the PBOC still in the mood for stimulation - it lowered the reserve requirement ratio by a full 1% over the weekend - China's "uneducated" ...

China's trade trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2015
... and by 25% to Japan. And why? It's the yuan, that's why. It's pegged to the surging US dollar. Back in March last year, the PBOC doubled the trading band for which the yuan was allowed to trade against the US dollar from +/-1% to +/-2%. That was good ...

All roads leading to China's "one road"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2015
... the use of retirement savings for home purchases - and expectations for more policy easing by the People's Bank of China (PBOC) boosted investor confidence, sending the Shanghai Composite index up by 2.5% yesterday. That's fine and dandy, Hamish & Andy ...

PMI surveys say...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2015
... orders index improved, at 49.3 (from 47.1 in February), it remains in contraction territory. The People's Bank of China's (PBOC) latest round of policy easing - policy some more -- should, in time, arrest further deterioration and at the same time ensure ...

It might just be a matter of time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015
... Thailand and South Korea since - and this doesn't track those that have already double-dipped like the People's Bank of China (PBOC) and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). Competitive devaluation is a zero sum game... unless, of course, we find life on ...

PBOC to QE?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
... victorious." - Lao Tzu, 'The Art of War' That "when" to fight must be nigh. Rumour has it that the People's Bank of China (PBOC) is preparing its own QE programme - prompted by the PBOC's recent approval allowing regional governments to swap around 1 ...