Page 11 - Central Banks

Covid-19 bringing $1 trn of new global corporate debt in 2020: Report

The unprecedented increase will see total global corporate debt jump by 12% to around $9.3 trillion

Fundamentally sound stocks are available at inexpensive valuation: S Naren

"Investors have realised the trouble in the debt markets is not systemic and it has been business as usual for fund houses with good quality underlying debt paper," Naren said

Central banks have thrown trillions at Covid-19. What do they have left?

For central banks that already print money to buy assets, so-called helicopter drops could follow -- directly funding state spending with newly created money that's not offset by government IOU

Markets rise on stimulus hopes; Sensex up 1,628 pts, Nifty ends above 8,700

To avert a global recession, most central banks have announced measures worth trillion of dollars.

FinMin may cut interest rates on small savings schemes for April-June qtr

The govt last cut the small savings rates for the July-September 2019 quarter, except for one scheme

Letter to BS: Central banks have become uncertain post Trump, Coronavirus

Post-(Donald) Trump disruption and now Covid-19, monetary policy worldwide pivoted at the start of the year from tightening to easing

Climate change could cause the next financial meltdown, suggests report

The ECB is among central banks trying to prepare for what a report warns could be a "coming economic upheaval"

WEF forms framework to help central banks evaluate, design digital currency

Announcing the framework, the World Economic Forum (WEF) said the National Bank of Cambodia has already piloted a quasi-form of CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency) for its national payments system.

Gold price jumps 23% in 2019 on reduced supply, continuous buying by banks

The rupee's weakness against the dollar, however increased cost of imports, pushing consumers from buying gold unless necessary.

An era of central bank shocks has left few options for next downturn

Interest rates are either already around historic lows or negative after more than 750 cuts since 2008, spurring concerns they are doing more harm than good

Record $2.4 trillion bond binge threatening to cool investors' hot returns

Companies have sold a record $2.44 trillion so far this year across currencies, surpassing previous full-year records

Climate change is real: How it is becoming a nightmare for central banks

Climate change was a warning shot that took time to echo in policy-making corridors

The central 'enemy'

Tweetstorm has become a new way for governments to express disappointment with central banks

Going beyond the central bank "put"

In essence, we are seeing the rollback of three decades of globalization-a period when goods and, to a lesser extent, people, moved with increasing freedom across the world

Buy gold 'at any level' as central banks ease monetary policies: Mobius

Gold hit a six-year high this month on prospects for easier monetary policy from the Federal Reserve and other central banks to support growth

Asia central banks stun markets with series of rate cuts amid slow growth

Policymakers everywhere have been forced to consider more stimulus as fears grow over the broadening fallout of the US-China trade dispute on the global economy

China and India stumble into monetary leadership

In the monetary cosmos, at least, it feels like there's alignment

Central banks bought highest amount of gold in 50 years in signs of turmoil

They bought 651 tonnes in 2018, or 15% of total gold sold globally, primarily because they see no let up in turbulence a decade after the last global economic crisis

As economic outlook darkens, central banks may reassess 'forward guidance'

The US Federal Reserve has been weaning itself off forward guidance as it dials back crisis-mode policies

Why RBI under Shaktikanta Das could go for interest rate cut next month

A slowdown in the world economy, the trade war and skittish financial markets are forcing policy makers to express fresh caution about their scope for tightening monetary policy