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Chief economist update: COVID-19 eating into jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2020
... rate back to zero) to a US$700 billion QE and ultimately expanded into an open-ended one. With both fiscal and monetary policy working towards a common a goal -- restoring consumer, business and investor confidence - perhaps, this time, the optimism ...

Chief economist update: The corona crash of 2020

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020
... travel ban - cancelation of concerts and events, school, factory and office closures... generally, a general lockdown. Monetary and fiscal authorities have responded: The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has cut interest rates by 25 bps earlier this month ...

Chief economist update: Coronaphobia sickens Japan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2020
... 2020-2021. It's therefore hardly surprising that financial markets widely expect the BOJ to announce an easing monetary policy very, very soon. But with its policy rate at negative 0.1% and targets the 10-year JGBs at zero, it may have very little ...

Chief economist update: A sensationalised version of the flu?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2020
... out "pretend believers" out of the market that, effectively strengthens equity market dynamics. There's also the monetary and fiscal policy responses that should help inoculate from the contagion.

Chief economist update: It's the US consumer, stupid me

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2020
... Congress' Financial Services Committee, he reiterated that, although "not on a preset course... the current stance of monetary policy will likely remain appropriate". This is because while "business investment and exports were weak, largely reflecting ...

Chief economist update:China prepares anti-viral injection

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2020
... yuan ($174 billion) worth of liquidity into the markets via reverse repo operation and pledged to use various monetary policy tools to ensure liquidity remains reasonably ample and to support firms affected by the virus epidemic. There's no doubting ...

Uncertainty remains for global outlook: TCorp

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2020
... nine key issues, four are from the US including US jobs growth, US earnings growth, US Federal Reserve easing monetary policy and the US/China Phase 2 Trade Deal. TCorp chief economist, Brian Redican, said while general market consensus is that global ...

Chief economist update: Turn the beat around

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2020
... to cut the cash rate at its next meeting in February." Recall that in its latest (November 2019) Statement on Monetary Policy (SoMP), the RBA expects headline inflation at 1.9% at the end of December 2019; 1.8% at end-2020; and 1.9% by the last quarter ...

Chief economist update: Coronavirus has gone viral

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2020
... the ones before it are taking a huge toll on human life and if it breaks containment, no amount of fiscal and/or monetary policy could cure it. Dead people don't vote - even if the government hands them money or reduces their taxes to zero - and ...

Light on horizon for global economy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2020
... signs that manufacturing activity and global trade are bottoming out, a broad-based shift toward accommodative monetary policy, intermittent favorable news on US-China trade negotiations, and diminished fears of a no-deal Brexit, leading to some retreat ...