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No board meeting necessary

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2015
Central bank surprises continue. This week started with the People's Bank of China (PBOC) surprising with a weekend announcement that it is lowering both its benchmark one-year lending rate and one-year deposit rate by 25 basis points each to 5.35% ...

Mind over matter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2015
... Indonesia joined this club - the central bank surprises club - when it surprised markets with a 25 bps reduction in its BI rate to 7.5%. Yesterday, the Bank of Israel enlisted, unexpectedly surprising with a bigger than expected reduction in its benchmark ...

Still a two-way street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2010
After all is said and done...more was said than done! Yes, you know what I'm referring to Virginia - the "big kahuna" of economic statistics that is the US non-farm payrolls report. Remember how we (note I use "we" when I'm mistaken and "I" to gloat ...
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