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The Fed could get it wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2015
... got it wrong... as they did back in September 2008? Yup, now that we're all staring at the prospect of the return of US monetary policy back to normality let's go back to when it started turning abnormal. September 16, 2008 - Fed FOMC meeting day and ...

Japan does a double double-dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2015
... continue to recover moderately and that low inflation was due to the decline in energy prices month after month in its monetary policy statements, it could not will sustained growth and inflation. At its October meeting - where it kept interest rates ...

Banking and Finance Oath reshuffles board

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2015
... career in the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and has also worked for the Commonwealth Treasury and the International Monetary Fund. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2008 for his services to financial regulation. Also joining ...

ASIC grilled on whistleblower compensation

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2015
... enforcement action. Whistleblowers are eligible for awards that can range from 10% to 30% of the money collected when the monetary sanctions exceed $1 million. All payments are made out of an investor protection fund established by Congress that is financed ...

Australia back on the radar for international capital

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2015
... larger macroeconomic scheme, Australia is becoming more attractive relative to Europe, which is slowing, and the US, where monetary tightening may have a negative impact on the equity market. When the Federal Reserve raised rates in February 1994, after ...

Pick a number

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2015
... interest rate apropos to the prevailing Australian macro setting. Australia, after all, is one of the few economies where monetary policy has not been corrupted by "non-conventional" policies to date... so the rule should still work. This from Wikipedia ...

Rusting still

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2015
... slowed to 6.9% in the first quarter of 2015 from 7.4% last year. While the People's Bank of China (PBOC) has again eased monetary policy - it lowered the benchmark one-year lending rate by 25 bps to 4.35%; the deposit rate down by 25 bps to 1.5% (the ...

Six point five is PM Li's new like

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2015
... we all know premier Li gets what premier Li likes. Stay tuned (for confirmation) and oh, also for the Bank of Japan's monetary policy announcement later today.

December lift-off, yeah, sure

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2015
... likely than not prospect of a lift-off... and soon. Yes Virginia, there were no surprises in the Fed's decision to keep monetary policy unchanged after it concluded its 27-28 October tete-a-tete. But what was surprising was Wall Street's reaction - the ...

Hotel California

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2015
... growth, but it's not a policy target. The movements in the exchange rate (over) three years were the outcome of diverging monetary policy cycles as well as divergent economic recovery paths between major jurisdictions. They were not intended, it was ...