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RBNZ cuts rates, biased towards further easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2016
... expectations that the New Zealand central bank will keep interest rates unchanged after this morning's board meeting. In its monetary policy statement, the RBNZ explained its decision as prompted by the deterioration in the global outlook since December ...

Market confidence marches in March

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2016
... the ECB and the BOJ. The PBOC has just lowered its RRR and more are expected from Beijing in the way of both fiscal and monetary actions after the National People's Congress' concludes. In addition, although the latest US non-farm payrolls report - up ...

With pretty numbers like these, who needs a rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2016
... improvement in trade deficit. As I've ranted many, many times before... the A$ depreciation is a 'de facto' easing in monetary policy and it's working. The problem now is that Australia's good tidings are sending the A$ back up again. This is compounded ...

Another standout economic performance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2016
... continued growth in the economy, with inflation close to target. The Board therefore decided that the current setting of monetary policy remained appropriate."

Crouching services, contracting manufacturing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2016
... 6.5%-7.0% at this meeting while at the same time announcing stimulus measures to achieve this target. As well as the usual monetary policy accommodation measures, markets expect the government to announce some fiscal easing - i.e. letting the budget ...

A "must do" for the ECB

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2016
... Eurostat has all but ensured that ECB President Mario Draghi will make good on his 21 January promise to "...reconsider our monetary policy stance at our next meeting in early March" aka increase policy stimulus. Financial markets expect the ECB to announce ...

A "chilling" moment for the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 FEB 2016
... Watch and wait should be what the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) would be doing when its Board meets for its regular monetary policy deliberations tomorrow. Not an "expert" soul expects a shift in policy at this meet but a few anticipates a move down ...

ZIRP to bring back "animal spirits"?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2016
... expected capex have continued to decline... and by more. The knee-jerk reaction is, of course, renewed clamour for more monetary policy largesse, i.e. interest rate cuts. But as Gov Glenn's stated back in August 2014, "... the thing that is most needed ...

Financial services to be a greater part of "economic narrative"

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2016
... in Australia over the coming five years." "This services jobs growth is being felt already, with the last Statement of Monetary Policy highlighting a substantial uptick in both household and business services employment over 2015 while goods-related ...

Another 6-9 months under Downunder

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2016
... captured in the divergent movements of the components of the Index." As for the index's implication for near-term RBA monetary policy, "International factors are pointing to downward pressure on rates whereas domestic factors, partly due to the boost ...