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ASIC sets adviser exam dates

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2022
... gradually declined to 69% and 60%. Advisers pay $973 for every sitting. The exam goes for 3.5 hours, which includes 15 minutes of reading time. Advisers wishing ACER to re-mark their exams must pay $218.

Economic recap: Week to October 15

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2021
... tapering could commence with the monthly purchase calendars beginning in either mid-November or mid-December." The minutes of the US Federal Reserve's 21-22 September FOMC meeting couldn't be any clearer. It is, perhaps, because of this clarity ...

Economic recap: Week to September 24

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 SEP 2021
... Financial markets have been on edge ever since they got the first whiff of "taper" in the air. This started when the minutes of the US Federal Reserve's April 27-28 FOMC meeting revealed that: "A number of participants suggested that if the economy ...

Economic recap: Week to July 23

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2021
... Australian GDP would contract in the September quarter. The uncertainty created by the Delta outbreak rendered the minutes of the RBA's July meeting outdated. The optimistic narrative painted by the RBA at the meeting led markets to anticipate that ...

Chief economist update: Did the BOE just announce taper?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2021
... the Bank Rate remains at a record low 0.1% and QE at £895 billion. But buried in the "Monetary Policy Summary and minutes of the Monetary Policy Committee meeting ending on 5 May 2021" document is the paragraph: "The existing programme of £150 billion ...

Chief economist update: Europa rides the bull once again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2021
... dropped to a reading of 16.7 points - down 33% year-to-date - just as the European Central Bank (ECB) released the minutes of its 11 March of meeting detailing the Governing Council's concern over the regions' growth outlook due to coronavirus ...

Chief economist update: Japan to double down on stimulus?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2021
... Rising Sun's economic recovery through various crises going back to the late 1980s-early 1990s proved to be five minutes of sunshine. Japan's economy has risen and fell through the 1990-91 recession, the 1997 Asian financial crisis, the 2001 ...

Chief economist update: Japan's five minutes of sunshine

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2020
However it's measured, economic growth has rebounded in the Land of the Rising Sun from the depths of the huge contraction recorded in the June 2020 quarter. Japanese GDP surged at an annualised rate of 22.9% in the September quarter (from a 29.2% ...

Chief economist update: RBA negative on negative interest rate policy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2020
... on negative rates has not changed...This is not something we're looking at." Although considered an option, the minutes of its July meeting, the RBA wrote that: "Members agreed that negative interest rates in Australia remain extraordinarily unlikely." ...

Chief economist update: Worse news is better news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2020
... highest case of infections (5.7 million) in the world and the most deaths (176.3K). This is not lost on the Fed. The minutes of their 28-29 July FOMC meeting revealed its downgrade to earlier growth predictions. "The projected rate of recovery in real ...
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