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US Economy
Why breaking the QE addiction is such a struggle
QE is just too hard to say goodbye to
October 20, 2022
Global Markets
Outlook for Asian equities in 2020
(Dec 20): This decade will end pretty much the way it started: Global central banks embarking on loose monetary policy and quantitative easing to counter slowing GDP growth. In 2019, global economic growth seems to have fallen to a post-global financial c
December 20, 2019
Commentary
Twenty years after the Asian crisis, what are the prospects for the region?
SINGAPORE (July 3): Two decades ago, several Asian economies were shattered by a series of financial, economic and political crises that set the region back badly.
July 03, 2017
Global Economy
Asia central banks rebuild US$6 trillion defense as Fed hike looms
HONG KONG/MUMBAI (June 13): Asia’s central banks are stacking the sandbags.
June 13, 2017
Investing strategies
Why ‘Trumponomics’ continues to support markets, but not for long
SINGAPORE (Feb 22): Global equities, risk assets and bond yields are on the brink of seeing myriad changes depending on the geopolitical events and policies to come – according to Mark Burgess, chief investment officer (CIO) EMEA and global head of equi
February 22, 2017
Central banks need to stop living in a fantasy world
SINGAPORE (Nov 7): Central banks have been largely ineffective in creating credit within their economies despite repeated efforts at tweaking their monetary policy, and Huw van Steenis, the Global Head of Strategy at Schroders, thinks he might know the re
November 07, 2016