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One small rise in rates, one giant step towards normalisation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2017
... the Committee decided to raise the target range for the federal funds rate to 3/4 to 1 percent. The stance of monetary policy remains accommodative, thereby supporting some further strengthening in labor market conditions and a sustained return to 2 ...

No other way but up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 MAR 2017
... Senate Banking Committee and the House Financial Services Committee. One that's also mentioned in the February monetary policy statement: "...the actual path of the federal funds rate will depend on the economic outlook as informed by incoming data". ...

Three for three

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2017
... As with the BOJ and the Fed, the Bank of England (BOE) did what financial markets expected when its monetary policy committee met on the 2nd of February. The BOE kept policy setting unchanged -- Bank Rate at a record low of 0.25% and asset purchases ...

ANZ director retires after nine years

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 19 DEC 2016
... for his "service to the stabilisation of the Australian financial system, to central banking, and to the operation of monetary and economic policy in both domestic and international spheres." ANZ chair David Gonski said: "Ian has served as a non-executive ...

Trump's helping hand

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2016
... that this could mark the beginning of the end of low-flation and, in turn, the dawn of a return to a more normal monetary policy. Just in case you start worrying that inflation would jump to the other extreme, the US dollar's appreciation over the past ...

More poor customer outcomes expected: Narev

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2016
... "there will undoubtedly be more announcements regarding compensation due to customers, which will include some significant monetary amounts given the scale of our business and the length of time we will go back to make things right." As expected, the ...

Yellen speaks Fedspeak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2016
... many words (3,555 words including sub-headings to be exact) in her prepared remarks at the "Designing Resilient Monetary Policy Frameworks for the Future" symposium at the Hole. I started a joke... But of these 3,555 words, someone latched onto a mere ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2016
... in August. This was the Bank of England's message after its 14 July policy deliberations - the first monetary policy committee meeting post-Brexit -- where it left the Bank Rate unchanged at 0.5% and maintained its asset purchases at £375 billion In ...

Parting could be such sweet sorrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2016
... 5.6% lower than it would otherwise have been sans Brexit. There's the Bank of England (BOE): In its monetary policy committee meeting held last week, the BOE noted that, "the most significant risks to the MPC's forecast concern the referendum. A vote ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2016
... Australian labour market and the absence of a big surprise - up or down - provides no immediate implication for RBA monetary policy adjustment. US CPI inflation Headline consumer prices increased by 0.2% in May, slowing from April's 0.4% monthly gain ...