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Chief economist update: ECB cannot be any clearer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2018
... accommodation. "Third, the Governing Council decided that the interest rate on the main refinancing operations and the interest rates on the marginal lending facility and the deposit facility will remain unchanged at 0%, 0.25% and -0.4% respectively. ...

Perpetual launches ethical fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2018
... bonds with a rating of BBB- and above, supplemented by a smaller allocation to high-yield and unrated bonds. "With interest rates bottoming out in Australia, the timing of the fund's launch means investors are poised to benefit from rising interest ...

Chief economist update: Fed flattens the yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2018
... Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on February 17, 2005, Alan Greenspan remarked that: "Long-term interest rates have trended lower in recent months even as the Federal Reserve has raised the level of the target federal funds rate by 150 ...

Chief economist update: Another five minutes of sunshine?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018
... consider economic expansion as negative for bonds because it can indicate inflation may be going up which might force interest rates to increase. When interest rates go up bond investors can suffer because the interest yields on their bonds may not be ...

Chief economist update: A prelude to an RBA cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2018
... with prices having recorded falls in some areas. These, of course, led to the same conclusion: "The low level of interest rates is continuing to support the Australian economy. Further progress in reducing unemployment and having inflation return to ...

Chief economist update: Rush hour is over for the BOE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2018
... monetary policy deliberations. Yes Virginia, RBA Governor Philip Lowe has already gone on record that the next move in interest rates will be up but financial markets don't expect the "up" until around the second quarter of next year. But economies ...

Citi launches currency product, targets HNW investors

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2018
... Pound and Euro accounts in real time to take advantage of foreign exchange movements Citi is offering variable interest rates as high as 2.25% for those investing more than $250,000, and narrower foreign exchange spreads. The currency holdings are linked ...

Chief economist update: Should have sold in May and gone away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2018
... loosened but monetary policy remains accommodative with the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) not expected to raise interest rates until sometime next year. But while the Australian domestic narrative is a good story to tell - even the Royal Commission ...

Chief economist update: Erdogan's Turkey is cooked

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2018
... Argentina two weeks before, Turkey is in the firing line. The Banco Central de la Republica Argentina (BCRA) raised interest rates by 675 basis points to a whopping 40% on May 4. This was from 33.35% and the day before the previous week's hike to ...

Chief economist update: Wisdom of the crowd

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2018
... rate hikes. What's wrong with that? A strengthening US economy (or any economy for that matter) demands higher interest rates. As Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Governor, Philip Lowe, told his audience at the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce ...