The Bank of Japan will consider making negative interest rates the centrepiece of future
monetary easing by shifting its prime policy target from base money to interest rates at its review, Reuters reported on Sept. 14, citing sources familiar with its thinking.
Not exact matches
I noted a week ago that Bernanke had essentially
eased monetary policy
by spurring a loosening of financial conditions via higher stock prices, lower bond yields, tighter credit spreads, and a weakening of the U.S. dollar.
If a central bank
eases monetary policy, it stimulates the economy, largely
by encouraging households and companies to borrow more and pushing up the prices of many types of financial assets.
SHANGHAI (Reuters)- China's stock markets closed sharply lower on Monday after a frantically volatile day of trading, despite surprise
monetary easing moves
by the central bank at the weekend.
Moreover, policymakers have been aggressive in supporting the economy
by easing monetary policy and
by implementing a large fiscal - stimulus program.
But if you examine the persistent and aggressive
easing by the Fed during the 2000 - 2002 and 2007 - 2009 plunges, it's clear that
monetary easing has little effect once investor preferences shift toward risk aversion — which we infer from the behavior of observable market internals and credit spreads.
Mr Weber's concerns over
monetary policy were supported
by Nouriel Roubini of the Stern School at New York University, who had backed the initial moves towards unorthodox policies such as quantitative
easing in the financial crisis.
If you look back at the press release which accompanied our
easing of
monetary policy in December 1998, you will see it referred to the expectation
by official and private forecasters that 1999 would be a worse year than 1998.
An unexpected cut in January that was accompanied
by a very dovish
Monetary Policy Report naturally set up expectations for further policy
easing and now the Bank of Canada appears to be introducing
monetary policy uncertainty on top of uncertainty surrounding the impact of the plunge in commodity prices.
Operationally, the Federal Reserve's program of quantitative
easing involves expanding the «
monetary base» (currency plus bank reserves), which it does
by buying up Treasury bonds and paying for them with zero - interest base money, which is a «liability» of the Fed.
My impression is that without a shift back to uniformly favorable market internals, the continued faith in
monetary support may prove to be the same awful bet it was during the 2000 - 2002 and 2007 - 2009 collapses, both which were accompanied
by aggressive
monetary easing all the way down.
By easing the yuan's peg to the dollar, China will be able to benefit from a weaker renminbi as the Federal Reserve tightens
monetary policy, states BofA.
The decision
by the Bank of Korea marked a significant shift from its previous five years of
monetary easing.
This gap has been caused
by monetary policy through both quantitative
easing (QE) and through forward guidance, which has reduced volatility in short rates.
However, after enormous bailouts of the largest financial institutions in the country, as well as the auto industry, and even more
monetary ease than in 2003 (accompanied
by TARP, the stimulus plan, QE, and QE2); we started another cyclical bull market within the secular bear market.
Elsewhere in the Asian region, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand and Hong Kong all lowered official interest rates, while Singapore announced that it too would
ease monetary policy
by lowering the target trading band for the Singapore dollar.
In total, the standard variable rate was lowered
by 1 1/2 percentage points over and above the falls that accompanied the three
monetary policy
easings.
All of them in some way stimulated economic growth
by initiating
monetary quantitative
easing (QE) programs.
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: FOREIGN EXCHANGE
By Gordon Platt The dollar strengthened following a surprisingly strong US employment report for April, while the European Central Bank cut rates and hinted at more
monetary policy
easing to come.
Quantitative
Easing (QE): A government
monetary policy occasionally used to increase the money supply
by buying government securities or other securities from the market.
After 2002, Greenspan's rescue took effect and the stock and housing market experienced a brief period of asset inflation, but the bottom eventually fell out in 2008 when the S&P 500 delivered a -37 % total return, which was followed
by unprecedented
monetary stimulus in the form of Quantitative
Easing.
The trend of a negative relationship between stocks and bonds does not appear to be related to the quantitative
easing programs of the Fed, but rather, as emphasized
by Campbell, Pflueger, and Viceira (2015), is the byproduct of changes in the way
monetary policy is being conducted.
I submit there are NO valid price signals (P / B, P / E, TBV, etc.) to determine intrinsic value to aid capital investment while the Federal Reserve distorts the entire economy with: 1 - negative real after inflation interest rates and 2 — increases the
monetary base
by multiples with unlimitied quantitave
easing for the bond market (ie; QE4 - EVA).
For example, if inflationary pressures were high and interest rates were moving up, the Fed could not predictably lower the Fed Funds rate
by easing monetary policy.
But some of the recent shift in international beta can also be explained
by the concert of central back
easings around the world, forcing investors to make investments based on expected
monetary policy rather than the individual economic and fundamental corporate performance of each country.
So when the Fed is
easing, it increases the
monetary base
by purchasing Treasuries on the open market.
By December 2007, the Fed turned to unconventional
monetary policy tools, including credit
easing, quantitative
easing, policy duration commitment, and payment of interest on reserves (see the appendix for details).
Furthermore, on the
monetary policy front, the gradual
easing of quantitative
easing (QE) in many economies in the coming years, led
by the Federal Reserves in the United States, will do little to improve visibility.
A lot of the apparent growth in the following years has been fueled
by government bailouts, loose
monetary policy and huge injections of capital in the form of quantitative
easing.
By December 2007, the Fed turned to unconventional
monetary policy tools, including credit
easing, quantitative
easing, policy duration commitment, and payment of interest on reserves (see the appendix for details).