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Chief economist update: RBA cuts official cash rate to 0.75%

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2019
... Australia (RBA) concludes its scheduled board meeting. In his address to the Armidale Business Chamber, RBA governor Philip Lowe practically confirmed widespread market expectations that this would come to pass. "At our board meeting next week, we will ...

Climate change to erode returns: Frontier

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2019
... revised its long-term assumptions based specifically on the effects of climate change. Frontier's principal consultant Philip Naylor said: "As a result of analysis we have completed across a number of themes in this year's review, we have lowered the ...

Chief economist update: RBA not risking market disappointment

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2019
... September meeting. Operative phrase: "as widely expected". You, I and Irene can wax pedantic about some changes in RBA governor Philip Lowe's September statement and that of the previous month, but at the end of the day 'twas same old, same old. ...

Chief economist update: What price Australian budget surplus?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2019
... helping hand" because central banks are running out of ammunition. No less than Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Philip Lowe backs up Financial Standard 's earlier prescriptions. As printed in the Australian Financial Review on August 27: "He told ...

Chief economist update: Global easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2019
... Australian House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics on August 9, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor Philip Lowe practically gave his nod of approval in Financial Standard 's clear as the crystal ball's prediction (made two ...

RBA in no rush to lift cash rate

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2019
Investors should brace for the 1% cash rate environment to continue, after Reserve Bank of Australia governor Philip Lowe turned the spotlight to the stubborn inflation rates at a Sydney lunch yesterday. Speaking at Anika Foundation Luncheon, Lowe said ...

Chief economist update: Hard target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2019
... 4 - the night after the afternoon when the central bank announced its first rate cut since August 2016 - governor Philip Lowe declared 4.5% is the unemployment rate at which wages start to lift and feed into inflation. Latest data show Australia's ...

Chief economist update: RBA justified to cut rates or not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2019
... about it, for sure and for certain the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will cut interest rates again. RBA governor Philip Lowe told us so when he addressed the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) event in Adelaide on June 20. Talking ...

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

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2019
... the rising likelihood of a US recession (as indicated by the inverted yield curve) make this a real possibility. Governor Philip Lowe's statement after the conclusion of the RBA's June 4 board meeting doesn't offer much indication of the ...

Chief economist update: The rate cut Australia has to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2019
Reserve Bank of Australia governor Philip Lowe is set to be remembered in history as the man who took Australia's official cash rate from a historic low of 1.5% - set under Glen Stevens one month before he stepped down as RBA head honcho in September ...