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Chief economist update: Cash is King

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2019
... keep interest rates unchanged at current levels after its June meeting at 77.5%. This intuitively makes sense. The US central bank couldn't just adjust policy settings from a "patient pause" approach to an outright rate reduction without ringing ...

Chief economist update: Expect more of the same from the BOJ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2019
... negative 0.1% and its "yield curve control" measure keeping the yield on 10-year JGBs at "around zero percent", the Japanese central bank cannot lower rates some more - take them deeper into the negative - without causing negative consequences to the ...

Industry veterans recognised

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2019
... the community. Kathryn Fagg, a board member for the Reserve Bank was recognised for services to business and finance, central banking, logistics and manufacturing sectors - as well as for her work in elevating women. Carol Schwartz, who is also on the ...

Liquidnet acquires fintech

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2019
... Prattle, the developer of a proprietary system that measures the market impact of publicly available information including central bank communications and corporate communications such as earnings calls and press releases to produce analytics that asset ...

Chief economist update: Oil market slides from bull to bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2019
... year on the back of the Fed's pause; China's stimulus measures and expectations of continued easy policy by the central banks of the Eurozone and Japan, among others; and (at the time) hopes for a US-China trade deal, improving sentiment over ...

Chief economist update: The Budget surplus can wait

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2019
... December 2018 quarter while public investment contributed nothing to growth in both quarters. There goes the RBA's "central scenario... for the Australian economy to grow by around 23/4 per cent in 2019 and 2020... supported by increased investment ...

Chief economist update: The path of monetary policy according to Lowe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2019
... 2.75% this year and the next; employment growth is strong but could be better; inflation is lower than expected but "the central scenario remains for underlying inflation to be 13/4 per cent this year, 2% in 2020 and a little higher after that". What's ...

Chief economist update: The rate cut Australia has to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2019
... a new record low of 1.25% at 1430 hours (AEST) today. For sure, there are (very) few dissenters arguing the Australian central bank should steel its nerves and stay put, but the widespread consensus is the RBA will announce a 25 basis point reduction ...

Chief economist update: ECB exit proves premature

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2019
If there's anything that's 100% certain, it is that the European Central Bank (ECB) will keep current interest rate settings unchanged - repo at 0.00%; marginal lending facility at 0.25%; deposit facility at -0.40%. Although, given the mounting ...

Chief economist update: The greatest challenge of our time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2019
... Powell warned below-target inflation is "one of the major challenges of our time", saying: "That's something that central banks face all over the world." True that. The chart below shows latest core CPI inflation measures among the world's major ...