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Chief economist update: Be fearful when indicators show no fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2019
... the past few weeks - from a mini-me Dr. Doom to a prophet of boom - based on the rationale that the world's major central banks have toned down and/or reversed their hawkish rhetoric (and in China's case, soon Australia, engaged in stimulative ...

Chief economist update: What's the RBA waiting for?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2019
... Why doesn't it cut interest rates, and cut it now? I could only surmise that the reason is because the Australian central bank doesn't want to be seen that it's kowtowing to the dictates of the financial markets or that it's panicking ...

GPT sells MLC Centre for $800 million

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2019
... development pipeline. New projects for the group include 32 Smith Street, Parramatta and office development in Melbourne Central. The sale of MLC Centre is expected to be broadly neutral to the group's earnings. The transaction is expected to settle ...

Chief economist update: Prepare for lift-off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2019
... in 2018 (that's done) and forward guidance for another three this year; policy exit speculations from the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of Japan (BOJ); and, hawkish policy leanings from the Bank of England ("an ongoing tightening of monetary ...

Chief economist update: European Central Bank policy U-turn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019
... what you think is right... In a dark room you move with tiny steps. You don't run, but you do move, said European Central Bank (ECB) president Mario Draghi. About two months after the ECB ended QE - its â,¬2.6 trillion asset purchase programme ...

Saxo launches digital access to Chinese bonds

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2019
... Chinese yuan) as the settlement currency. "With options to invest in, for example Chinese onshore government bonds and central bank paper, institutional clients get simple, efficient automated access to a market that has historically been complicated ...

Chief economist update: A capitalist in communist clothes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2019
... growth weakness next year (and perhaps, the one after that). But just as the counter-cyclical policies implemented by most central banks around the world at the time of the GFC, China's latest salvo could do the trick (the currently speculated breakthrough ...

Chief economist update: How would you vote if seated on the RBA board?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2019
... this month but expectations further out have changed from steady to a cut in the official cash rate, with the Australian central bank itself just recently changing its policy bias from tightening to neutral. Note, Westpac recently announced two rate ...

IFM Investors adds policy director

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2019
... head of external relations and former ISA chief executive David Whiteley said during May's seven years at ISA, he was central to the delivery of exceptional policy outcomes for six million working Australians who are industry super fund members. In the ...

AXA IM acquires three Sydney hotels

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2019
... has 4.5 stars and 177 rooms, and Ibis has 3.5 stars and 150 rooms. AXA also acquired a 4.5-star Novotel in Canberra's central business district. "...Novotel Canberra is one of the top performing hotels in the city's business district. It is also expected ...