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Chief economist update: Premature easing will cost more lives, more rupiahs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020
... Indian GDP, on May 12. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) also went to work, cutting its benchmark repo rate and the reverse repo rate by 75 bps each to 4.4% and 4.15%, respectively, while at the same time reducing the reserve ratio by 100 bps to 3.0% to ...

Chief economist update:China prepares anti-viral injection

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2020
... China's central bank said it will inject 1.2 trillion yuan ($174 billion) worth of liquidity into the markets via reverse repo operation and pledged to use various monetary policy tools to ensure liquidity remains reasonably ample and to support ...

Chief economist update: Happy New Year rat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2020
... stabilisation in the Chinese economy. Recall that on November 18, the People's Bank of China (PBOC) cut its 7-day reverse repo rate from 2.55% to 2.50% - the first rate reduction in four years (October 2015). This followed its 15 November injection ...

Chief economist update: War is over

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 DEC 2019
... central bank stimulus packages. Recall that on November 18, the People's Bank of China (PBOC) cut its seven-day reverse repo rate from 2.55% to 2.50% - the first rate reduction in four years (October 2015). This followed its November 15 injection ...

Chief economist update: Chinese green shoots?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2019
... central bank stimulus packages? Recall that on November 18, the People's Bank of China (PBOC) cut its seven-day reverse repo rate from 2.55% to 2.50% - the first rate reduction in four years (October 2015). This followed its November 15 injection ...

Chief economist update: The PBOC stimulates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2019
... People's Bank of China (PBOC), it's going for growth. In a surprise move, the Chinese central bank cut its seven-day reverse repo rate from 2.55% to 2.5% yesterday - the first rate reduction in four years (October 2015). Markets certainly didn't ...

Chief economist update: The RBI surprises (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2019
... Recall that back in October 2018, the RBI surprised markets by keeping interest rates unchanged - repo rate at 6.5%, reverse repo rate at 6.25% - at the conclusion of that month's board meeting. At the time, Bloomberg's poll of forecasters (ahead ...

Chief economist update: An Indian surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2018
... past, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) brought them back. The RBI kept interest rates unchanged - repo rate at 6.5%, reverse repo rate at 6.25% - at the conclusion of its October 5 board meeting, following a 25 bps increase at its previous meeting on ...

Chief economist update: No target sign on India's back

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 APR 2018
... the Indian central bank met on 5 April and kept monetary policy settings unchanged - repo rate unchanged at 6.0%; reverse repo rate at 5.75%; and, the Bank Rate at 6.25%. There was no mention of the trade war as rationale for the decision. Instead, the ...

Gesundheit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 FEB 2018
... It therefore came as no surprise when the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) kept policy steady - repo rate at 6.0% and reverse repo at 5.75% - when it met on the February 7 (right in the midst of the upheaval on Wall Street). In fact, one monetary policy committee ...
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