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Economic recap: Week to July 9

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2021
... higher commodity prices on business production and operation, the meeting decided to maintain the stability of the monetary policy and enhance its effectiveness, without resorting to massive stimulus," he said. "Cuts in the required reserve ratio and ...

Chief economist update: Local and foreign love affair with Australian property

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUN 2021
... improvement in the domestic labour market and the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) continued accommodative monetary policy.

Chief economist update: Delta variant infects Australian economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2021
... beast." - The Eagles, 'Hotel California' Only a few days after the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept monetary policy settings unchanged and repeated its assurance that interest rates will remain at the record low 0.1% "until 2024 at the earliest" ...

Chief economist update: Japan still waiting for the sun to rise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2021
... continue growing with a virtuous cycle from income to spending intensifying." The BOJ decided to keep current monetary policy settings unchanged at the meeting but extended its pandemic relief programme by six months to the end of March 2022.

Chief economist update: UK not there yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2021
Financial markets widely expected the Bank of England's (BOE) decision to keep current monetary policy settings unchanged at its June monetary policy committee meeting. "The MPC voted unanimously to maintain Bank Rate at 0.1%... and to maintain ...

Chief economist update: The (dot) plot thickens

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2021
... the up and up. This is because while the much-anticipated June FOMC meeting produced no change in the prevailing monetary policy setting - the fed funds rate at 0-0.25% and bond purchases at a rate of US$120 billion monthly - the dot plots contained ...

Chief economist update: Anchoring the recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2021
... Lagarde's answers to an interview with 'Politico' asking how long the single-currency region's fiscal and monetary policy support would remain in place. This comes four days after the European Central Bank convened on the 10th of June ...

Chief economist update: Deflated expectations lift deflation expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2021
... inflation". This is the complete opposite of the BOJ's assessment revealed in the "Summary of Opinions at the Monetary Policy Meeting on April 26 and 27, 2021", where it revealed that, "The year-on-year rate of change in the consumer price index ...

Chief economist update: RBA cash rate on ice until 2024

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2021
... Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) June board meeting was largely a ho-hum affair. As expected, the RBA left monetary policy settings unchanged; "including: the targets of 10 basis points for the cash rate and the yield on the 3-year Australian government ...

Chief economist update: OECD upgrades global growth but advises continued policy support

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2021
... delay the economic rebound," the OECD said. The OECD prescribes central banks in advanced economies should keep monetary policy settings accommodative and allow "temporary overshooting of headline inflation... provided underlying price pressures are ...