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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2016
... annual rate of decline in imports in July, a sharp improvement from June's 10.0% drop. Indonesia consumer confidence Bank Indonesia's consumer confidence index rose to a reading of 114.2 in July - the highest level since March 2015 - from 113.7 in the ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 APR 2016
... and employment - could be prompting British consumers to tighten their purse strings until the issue is resolved. Bank Indonesia policy decision The Bank Sentral Republik Indonesia kept its policy rate unchanged at 6.75% following its 20-21 April meeting ...

Mind over matter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2015
... by the expanding number of central banks announcing surprise policy easing over the past few weeks. Last week, Bank 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%. ...

Indonesian inflation falls to 4.25pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2012
... bonds in the secondary market [will force] the government [to] be overwhelmingly reliant on foreign investors and Bank Indonesia," they said. Increasing activity in the Asian bond market, combined with some dampening in the outlook for selected resources ...

Smaller QE2 is not all that bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2010
... by the most in 22 months after the central bank set the weakest reference rate for the currency since September. Bank Indonesia will "guard" the rupiah at its "fundamental" level of 8,900 to 9,300 against the dollar and buy foreign currencies to limit ...

Bad news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2009
... the world are not sitting by watching their economies sink. And they'll 'do what is necessary.' Just last week, Bank Indonesia, Norway's Norges Bank and the Bank of England all cut their key interest rates by 50 bps to 8.25 per cent, 2.5 per cent and ...

Bad tidings we bring

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2009
... time to 1.5 per cent and urged banks to increase corporate lending amid sinking exports and weak domestic demand. Bank Indonesia also surprised by cutting its benchmark rate by 50 basis points to 8.75 per cent. This followed the Indonesian government's ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2006
... trade deficit with China until July of this year and a 19 per cent one with Japan over the same period. Meanwhile Bank Indonesia which cut its key rate to 10.75 per cent on October 5 aims to reduce the rate to 8.5 per cent next year so as to further ...
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