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Kim Eng’s Stotz Expects Thailand to Cut Interest Rates

admin — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:21:27 +0000

Jan. 25 (Bloomberg) — Andrew Stotz, a Bangkok-based strategist at Kim Eng Securities (Thailand) Pcl, talks about Thailand’s economy and central bank monetary policy.
Thailand may cut interest rates for the second consecutive meeting to help spur a recovery from the worst floods in almost 70 years and as a deteriorating global economy threatens growth. Stotz speaks with Rishaad Salamat on Bloomberg Television’s “Asia Edge.” (Source: Bloomberg)

Duration : 0:5:5

Bernanke’s Own Words on Interest Rates, Asset Purchases

admin — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:57:17 +0000

Jan. 25 (Bloomberg) — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke speaks about the Federal Open Market Committee’s decision to keep interest rates low through at least late 2014 and the possibility of additional asset purchases to boost U.S. growth.
Bernanke speaks at a news conference in Washington. (Excerpts. Source: Bloomberg)

Duration : 0:2:39

UBS’s Wang Doesn’t Expect China to Cut Interest Rates

admin — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:17:11 +0000

Jan. 17 (Bloomberg) — Wang Tao, a Hong Kong-based economist for UBS AG, talks about the China economy and the nation’s central bank monetary policy.
China’s economy expanded at the slowest pace in 10 quarters as export demand moderated and a prolonged campaign against consumer and property-price gains cooled growth. Wang speaks with Rishaad Salamat on Bloomberg Television’s “On the Move Asia.” (Source: Bloomberg)

Duration : 0:3:48

Negative Real Interest Rates and Inflation – fixed

admin — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:55:14 +0000

A recent article in Forbes magazine highlights a new concept that has developed in a low interest rate environment. The concept is Negative real interest rates and discussing that today is Chris Price director of broker dealer relations with Shurwest Financial Group.

Duration : 0:3:4

ECB holds interest rates

admin — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:55:09 +0000

http://www.euronews.net/ No change from the European Central Bank this month after its back-to-back interest rate cuts late last year.

Leaving its key borrowing rate at a record low 1.0 percent, the bank wants to assess the impact of the crisis-fighting steps it has already taken.

ECB president Mario Draghi said the bank’s flood of cheap three-year money is helping the eurozone’s banking system substantially and supporting confidence in the bloc’s economy which is showing some signs of stabilisation.

Duration : 0:0:26

Siam: Auto sales hurt by high interest rates & fuel prices

admin — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:06:16 +0000

Siam: Auto sales hurt by high interest rates & fuel prices

Duration : 0:1:43

Bank of Baroda: Interest rates could ease in next 3 months

admin — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 11:02:15 +0000

Bank of Baroda: Interest rates could ease in next 3 months

Duration : 0:8:45

Mortgage market and interest rate commentary for Wednesday January 4, 2012

admin — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:21:16 +0000

Mortgage market and interest rate update by Bruce Brown, CMPS with Prime Lending and host of Dollars and Homes on KCMO Talk Radio 710 in Kansas City.

Duration : 0:3:43

AJE speaks to a political analyst on Italy’s economy

admin — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 01:24:28 +0000

Italy’s prime minister has warned that despite his country’s borrowing costs falling, his government still has more to do before it has convinced financial markets that it will be able to manage its heavy debts.

Interest rates paid out on Italian bonds dropped for the second straight day on Thursday, and Mario Monti, the Italian prime minister, said that his government of technocrats was preparing a new package of economic measures to help ease the crisis.

Making sense of the country’s economic and political issues is Giovanni Orsina, a university professor and political analyst who speaks to Al Jazeera from Rome.

Duration : 0:3:18

There’s No Such Thing as Free Yield

admin — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 09:44:56 +0000

Money market accounts are yielding close to zero, deposits are also yielding next to nothing and the Federal Reserve has made it clear that it intends to keep interest rates low until at least the middle of 2013. In this low rate environment, investors are searching for fixed income products to add to their portfolios that can generate higher yield.

But in this video Steve Laipply, a member of BlackRock’s Model-Based Fixed Income Portfolio Management Group, cautions that there’s no such thing as free yield. Often, products that generate higher returns also involve greater risks.

Steve outlines three basic risks that are associated with fixed income investments — interest rate risk, credit risk and volatility risk — and explains how investors need to determine which level of risk they are comfortable with before making any buying decisions.

Duration : 0:6:50