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Chief economist update: Lessons from the last world trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2018
... in Southeast Asia. "I hope that this escalation could be rescinded. This is a matter of great concern for Japan." RBA Governor Philip Lowe: "It wouldn't take much for the financial markets combined with businesses waiting to turn this into a very ...

Chief economist update: A prelude to an RBA cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2018
... at a record low 1.5% following its June 5 board meeting. Except for a few tweaks in the wordings here and there, RBA Governor Philip Lowe's statement was more or less a copy and paste exercise of what was said after the May 1 meeting. "The recent ...

Chief economist update: Rush hour is over for the BOE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2018
... Bank of Australia (RBA) when it meets at 2.30pm today for its monthly monetary policy deliberations. Yes Virginia, RBA Governor Philip Lowe has already gone on record that the next move in interest rates will be up but financial markets don't expect ...

RBA names new chief information officer

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
... needs," the RBA said. Benedict's appointment follows the RBA deciding to leave the cash rate at 1.5%. Explaining this, RBA Governor Philip Lowe said: "The low level of interest rates is continuing to support the Australian economy. Further progress in ...

Chief economist update: Inflation remains in the slow lane

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2018
... inflation rate. Is it when "core inflation" reaches 2.0% that they start lifting interest rates, or would it be 3.0%? RBA Governor Philip Lowe's address to the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce in Perth on April 11 offers a clue: Governor Lowe listed ...

Chief economist update: Inflation is heading Fed's way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018
... had previously expected." The financial markets would have had a negative knee-jerk reaction. But the same way as RBA Governor Philip Lowe explained in his address to the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce, it's a scenario "...in which interest rates ...

Chief economist update: RBA certain to raise interest rates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2018
... Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce (WA) in Perth yesterday. Perhaps, Lowe is itching to experience the kind of power the RBA Governor holds with even a minor tweak in interest rates for the official cash rates had been stuck at a record low 1.5% since ...

Chief economist update: Next move in rates will likely be up, but it's not certain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
... meeting, the Reserve Bank Board left the cash rate unchanged at 1.5%, where it has been since August 2016." This is what RBA Governor Philip Lowe told his audience at the Australian Financial Review Business Summit in Sydney yesterday. Not only did we ...

Capex brings cheer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2017
... certainly can't. I've allowed the horse to come to the water with cheap funding. I can't make it drink." This was then RBA governor Glenn Stevens' statement to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics in his August 2014 testimony. ...

Ex-RBA Governor joins Macquarie

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2017
Macquarie Group and Macquarie Bank will welcome a former Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia to its boards next month. Glenn Stevens, who served as Governor between 2006 and 2016, will join both boards on November 1 as an independent director. ...