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Chief economist update: Japan yearns for a weaker yen

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2019
The last time we heard some sort of policy guidance from the Bank of Japan (BOJ) was in early February this year when governor Haruhiko Kuroda was quoted as saying that: "If (currency moves) are having an impact on the economy and prices, and if we ...

AMP, Griffith University support professionalism

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2019
... partnership, Ellana Brand has been appointed to research fellow at the university. She is a senior analyst for the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and received the RBA's Outstanding Achievement Award in 2016 and 2017. Brand will undertake research in ...

Chief economist update: Hoping for the best, preparing for the worst of Brexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2019
... March and voted unanimously to keep the Bank Rate unchanged at 0.75 and maintain bond purchases at £435 billion, the Bank of England (BOE) declared its future actions would largely depend on Brexit. "The economic outlook will continue to depend significantly ...

Chief economist update: China stitches it in time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2019
... quarter) and 6.6% for the full year 2018 from 6.9% in 2017. These policy stimulus measures came on top of the People's Bank of China's (PBOC) 1.0% reduction in the reserve requirement ratio (RRR) - 0.5% on 15 January and 0.5% on 25 January - ...

Chief economist update: No credit to the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 APR 2019
If the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) very own Financial Aggregates report - released on March 29 - doesn't convince the board to switch from its current "neutral stance" to an interest rate cut very, very soon, by the time it does - and ...

Big banks, super funds join forces for sustainability

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2019
... the financial services community," he said. "Climate change was recently described by the deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia as a 'systemic risk' to the stability of our economy, and APRA emphasised last week that climate risks are 'material ...

Chief economist update: Japan should raise taxes another day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2019
... just-released "Summary of Opinions at the Monetary Policy Meeting on March 14 and 15, 2019" contained the same optimism that the Bank of Japan (BOJ) had been telling us and itself for as long as I can remember. The same rose-tinted outlook on growth. ...

Chief economist update: RBA repeats history

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2019
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) may not even need to acquiesce to mounting consensus expectations for at least one interest rate cut this year after the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) good news on the country's unemployment rate ...

Macquarie axes SMSF residential property loans

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2019
... products. In the same note, Macquarie said it will no longer offer family guarantee loans - popularly referred to as "the bank of mum and dad". Through this product, Macquarie had allowed family members to use the equity in their family home as security ...

UBS fined $51m for reporting breaches

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2019
... 12 other firms for MiFID transaction reporting breaches. They are: Merrill Lynch International, Deutsche Bank AG, Royal Bank of Scotland, James Sharp & Co, Plus500UK, City Index, Societe Generale, Commerzbank AG, Instinet Europe, Getco Europe, Credit ...