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Chief economist update: The rate cut Australia has to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2019
... remembered in history as the man who took Australia's official cash rate from a historic low of 1.5% - set under Glen Stevens one month before he stepped down as RBA head honcho in September 2016 - to a new record low of 1.25% at 1430 hours (AEST) ...

Timely market surge for a tough budget

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
... to wait until 7:30 tonight (AEST) to find out how bloody, sweaty and teary we'll get. Then again, there's Governor Glen Stevens we can count on to wipe those blood, sweat and tears away - or some of it. He's an accommodative central banker too.

A$ rising on China slowing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2014
Uh-oh, Governor Glen Stevens won't be a happy little Vegemite this morning. No Virginia... not with headlines proclaiming the Australian dollar's comeback - as in, it's again on the rise against the US dollar. My Bloomberg screen shows the A$ fetched ...

When saving goes bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
... economy. The more the government saves, the more households save, the more businesses saves. Guess it's up to Governor Glen Stevens to save the day. But tell me how anyone could afford to pay zero percent interest rates with zero income? Saving for a ...

A-dollar zero point six six

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
... and/or rising inflation - which slows growth and weakens the US dollar. And does anybody think that the RBA Governor Glen Stevens would sit idly by and hold "interest rates until 2016" if the dollar-A's drop to US$0.66 by end 2015 results in rising imported ...

Up, up, prices are up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2014
... peeped above the RBA's mid-point target, clocking in at 2.6% in the three months to December. Dear oh dear! Governor Glen Stevens would have to start thinking about lifting the official cash rate now. That's the knee-jerk reaction in the financial markets ...

RBA and Melbourne Cup two-fecta

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2013
... wouldn't be just a few punters putting words in the horse's mouth. It'll be more difficult for the RBA. Governor Glen Stevens has to explain the bank's decision and at the same time (hopefully), provide forward guidance on the trajectory of interest ...

Reversal of fortune

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013
... too, that many expected the jobless rate to top 10.0% at the height of the GFC. Or perhaps, it is he, RBA Governor Glen Stevens, who's wrong when he told Australians all that, "...there are signs that the easier conditions are having some of the expected ...

Jobs a-plenty but not if Gillard could help it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2013
... implemented by the Reserve Bank of Australia about a year or so before? If you bother to read the nuances of RBA chief Glen Stevens' statements over the past two months, it certainly is looking that way. On 22 February, Governor Glen told the House of ...

RBA holds rates but deploys rhetoric as magic pudding

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2012
Reserve Bank governor Glen Stevens can hold off policy adjustments if rhetoric can help get the economy moving again, according to Instreet managing director George Lucas. Yesterday the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) surprised the market by holding ...
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