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Chief economist update: Australia low on credit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2018
... change sometime down the road but given the current slowing trend in private sector credit (in spite of record low interest rates) the Australian central bank won't be in a hurry. Total private sector credit growth barely moved, increasing to 4.89% in ...

Chief economist update: New Fed chief, same policy direction (but more transparent)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2018
... chair, the economy continued to strengthen and Federal Reserve policymakers began to normalise both the level of interest rates and the size of the balance sheet. Together, chair Yellen and I have worked to ensure a smooth leadership transition and provide ...

Chief economist update: The key to ECB taper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 FEB 2018
... purchases, the sizeable stock of acquired assets and the forthcoming reinvestments, and our forward guidance on policy interest rates." Draghi cannot get any clearer. Inflation needs "ample" monetary stimulus to get to 2%. Not only this, the net asset ...

Don't time equity returns with interest rates: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2018
New research dispelling the positive correlation between interest rates and equity returns warns investors not to base investment strategies on this myth. The research analysed the relationship between the official cash rate, government bond yields ...

Chief economist update: Three minutes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2018
... forward guidance is similar - that strengthening activity would lift inflation and eventually pave the way for higher interest rates (i.e., policy normalisation) but... this all depends on upcoming data. The minutes of the RBA meeting reveal that our ...

Chief economist update: The real growth in wages

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2018
... growth in wages will keep inflation low, providing the Reserve Bank of Australia neither rhyme nor reason to raise interest rates anytime soon. Ben Ong is the Director of Economics and Investments at Rainmaker Group. He previously worked as a fund manager ...

Chief economist update: Bad news is good news returns?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2018
... Slowing retail spending removes one of the jittery factors on Wall Street - a more aggressive Fed that could raise interest rates by one or two more than the "forward guided" three. Likewise, a slowdown in consumer spending would ease the upward pressure ...

Gesundheit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 FEB 2018
... (right in the midst of the upheaval on Wall Street). In fact, one monetary policy committee member voted to increase interest rates by 25 basis points. This is because although there's no doubt about the Indian economy's growth trajectory, the same growth ...

Retirees force the politics of income

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2018
... of global GDP than it was in 2007. This matters because if we're trying to think about the outlook for long-term interest rates, you have to think about the debt servicing capacity," Lawson said. "Average growth is a lot lower than it was in the pre-crisis ...

Chief economist update: The Fed's force is with us

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2018
... However, these are all based on expectations that the US Federal Reserve will be more aggressive towards lifting interest rates that, in turn, is based that the Fed's prophecy about inflation lifting "this year" will come true. There's no question that ...