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Ringgit may test psychological level of 4.00 against greenback next week
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 16 (Bernama): The ringgit may test the psychological level of 4.00 against the US dollar next week amid anticipation that Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) would maintain the Overnight Policy Rate (OPR) at 1.75 per cent at its meeting on Wednesday.
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THE dollar found support from expectations of a continued economic recovery in the United States amid countries in Europe resorting to lockdowns to fend off a second Covid-19 wave; and expectations of higher government spending under the Biden administration – after a plunge in payrolls in December raised the prospect of more federal spending to aid the coronavirus-battered economy.
Ready to lend a helping hand
TOKYO: Bank of Japan governor Haruhiko Kuroda yesterday reaffirmed the bank’s readiness to expand monetary stimulus if the coronavirus pandemic threatened to derail a fragile economic recovery.
Japan banks' profits hit by BoJ's negative rate policy
TOKYO: Japanese banks' profits have deteriorated due to a decline in interest rates under the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) negative rate policy, the head of a business lobby group said on Thursday.
Japan’s cash balance hits fresh high
TOKYO: The balance of money circulating in Japan’s economy hit a record high for the ninth consecutive month in December, data showed, as the central bank continued to flood the economy with cash to cushion the blow from the on-going Covid-19 pandemic.
ECB should weigh yield-curve control, says Hernandez
MADRID: European Central Bank policy maker Pablo Hernandez de Cos says the institution should consider a policy to actively manage governments’ borrowing costs.
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THE dollar extended its broad-based decline during the week in review, down 0.71% to 89.68 – hitting a fresh 32-month low with the low-volume market trading with a slight dose of risk-on sentiment.
Insight - Big economic stimulus works. And that’s an issue
IF the global financial crisis taught economic policy makers anything, it was go early and go hard. The cost of hesitating proved too great.
BoJ divided on stimulus tweaks as pandemic stokes deflation fears
TOKYO: Bank of Japan (BoJ) policymakers were divided on how far to go in tweaking its stimulus programme, with some calling for an overhaul of its strategy for achieving 2% inflation, a summary of views voiced at the December rate review showed.
JGB yields drift higher
TOKYO: Yields on some Japanese government bond (JGB) futures drifted higher last Friday in holiday-thinned trade after weak results from a Bank of Japan (BoJ) debt buying operation pushed down futures prices.