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Chief economist update: A US dollar story

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2018
... (BOJ) recently removing its target time-frame for the achievement of its 2% inflation target and the European Central Bank (ECB) faced with renewed inflation weakness - headline CPI inflation slowed to 1.2% in the year to April from 1.3% in the previous ...

Chief economist update: Prudence, patience and persistence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
The European Central Bank's (ECB) 26 April Governing Council meeting produced unchanged monetary policy settings yet again, marking the 26th month of inaction. The eurozone's interest rates haven't changed - repo rate at 0.0%; deposit facility at -0.40% ...

Chief economist update: The euro's doing Trump's work in the Eurozone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2018
... before Trump granted a temporary exemption to EU, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico and South Korea until May 1 - ECB President Mario Draghi said that while the central bank remains confident that inflation would eventually rise to the ECB's ...

Chief economist update: The key to ECB taper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 FEB 2018
Not a single soul could argue with ECB President Mario Draghi's assessment that "euro area economy is expanding robustly" and neither with his self-congratulatory remark that "our measures have put the euro area economy on a solid growth pathway, driven ...

Chief economist update: Three minutes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2018
... where they plan to take us. The minutes of the meetings of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), the European Central Bank (ECB) and the US Federal Reserve (Fed) were released last week. Despite their economies operating at different points in the economic ...

Chief economist update: Euro's uptrend is a downtrend risk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2018
While none expected a change in monetary policy, not a few anticipated ECB president Mario Draghi to deliver a less dovish message (at the very least) after the European Central Bank's first governing council meeting for 2018. Perhaps, the underlying ...

Chief economist update: ECB sees low rates for longer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 JAN 2018
Echoing BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda's quick push back on taper speculations, Deutsche Bundesbank president and ECB governing council member Jens Weidmann used his speech at the Ludwig-Erhard Summit in Bavaria to do the same. Like Kuroda, Weidmann's ...

Chief economist update: Bond sell bomb shell

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2018
... trimming its purchases of 10 to 25-year and 25 to 40-year JGBs by ¥10 billion each. And then, there's the European Central Bank (ECB) which is scheduled to halve its asset purchases from €60 billion to €30 billion starting this month. But if the ...

Same old same old from the BOJ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017
While the Fed lifted interest rates at its final meet for 2017, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) followed the others - ECB, BOE, SNB - in keeping the status quo this side of the New Year. And like the rest of 'em, it's optimistic over the Japanese economy's ...

Eurozone low-flation to 2020

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 DEC 2017
... estimates of Eurozone HICP (harmonised index of consumer prices) inflation added credence to the European Central Bank's (ECB) most recent forward guidance indicating that euro area interest rates will remain on ice until at least the third quarter of ...