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Chief economist update: Three ayes for a rate hike

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018
... expected." But therein lies the rub - in the "weaker sterling exchange rate". Mere speculations that the BOE would hike interest rates when it meets next has already strengthened sterling exchange rate to US$1.3255/£1 from US$1.3240/£1 the day before... ...

Chief economist update: RBA not cruising for a bruising

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2018
... prelude to an RBA rate cut ", published on 6 June 2018? There I observed that similar long stretches of unchanged interest rates - November 2010-October 2011; August 2013-January 2015; May 2015-April 2016 - were each followed by rate cuts despite the ...

Chief economist update: Submerging markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2018
... of risk assets. More so, given the Fed's optimistic outlook for the US economy (it wouldn't be raising interest rates if not, and by more than initially forward-guided). As it turns out, I am wrong and Powell is correct (else, I can be Fed chairman). ...

Chief economist update: Trade war and peace

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2018
... asset purchases from €30 billion a month through to September to €15 billion from October to December, and interest rates could rise after the summer of 2019. Similarly, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) did not disappoint expectations and kept policy unchanged. ...

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 ...