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More Australians to invest in China

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2015
... and First State Investments, are predicted initial candidates for RQFII quotas. The People's Bank of China (PBOC) and the RBA have also agreed to create a Sydney-based RMB clearing bank to facilitate RMB-dominated trade settlement. This news reflects ...

Auld lang syne

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2015
... But Morgan Stanley's also tipping the dollar-A to depreciate to US$0.76 (from around US$0.81 currently) without aid from an RBA rate cut. If this eventuates, then its headline predictions won't. A$ weakness, coupled with lower oil prices, tripled with ...

Australia according to Gov Glenn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
Thank you Australian Financial Review (AFR) and RBA Governor Glenn Stevens for your early Christmas present - the gift of sharing. In what has now become a "tradition," we learned from the AFR Gov Glenn's thoughts on: The international economy: "The ...

Don't underestimate LNG boom: BNP Paribas

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2014
... the medium to long-term we expect the Aussie dollar to go to about 94 US cents." He said interest rate increases from the RBA would push up bond yields. With Japanese and European rates still on the floor as a result of quantitative easing, Australian ...

Australia's confidence recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2014
... disappointment, more so because of the negative 0.5 percentage point contribution of private investment to overall GDP growth. RBA Governor Glenn Stevens might have to do more to awaken Australian businesses "animal spirits" and make them drink. But ...

The recession we're wishing to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014
... (excluding the tax hike impact) and 0.4% in the eurozone. Australia's economy is so headed for cactusland that the odds for an RBA rate cut - by as much as 50 bps -- has grown. If the on-going pessimism continues to go on, Australians might just have ...

Cash rate more likely to fall than rise: PIMCO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is more likely to cut the cash rate than raise it in 2015, according to PIMCO head of portfolio management in Australia Robert Mead. While Mead said the most likely scenario in 2015 is that rates will stay where they ...

Don't rule out another rate cut: AllianceBernstein

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2014
... economy are tilting to the downside, in our view, and, far from increasing interest rates, there's a growing prospect that the RBA may well need to cut them again." The consensus also underestimates the impact of continued stubbornness in the overvalued ...

Quo vadis dollar-A?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
... (depending on how much slower the Politburo could tolerate slowing growth) could ease.... and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) would keep the official cash rate on ice "until 2016". I placed quotation marks on "until 2016" cause that's one of the ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2014
... In local economic news on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia releases the minutes of its November board meeting while RBA governor Glenn Stevens is slated to deliver a speech to the Committee for Economic Development of Australia annual dinner in ...