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Chief economist update: Rush hour is over for the BOE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2018
... interest rates. Certainly not at its Monetary Policy Committee meeting scheduled for June 21. Ben Ong is the Director of Economics and Investments at Rainmaker Group. He previously worked as a fund manager, economist, asset allocation strategist, portfolio ...

Chief economist update: New Fed chief, same policy direction (but more transparent)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2018
... dollar spot index appreciate by 0.6%. Blame it on Jerome Powell and what he told the Committee on Financial Services of the House of Representatives in his first testimony as head honcho of the US Federal Reserve. In a prepared text chairman Powell painted ...

Chief economist update: Wall Street wails on inflation indications

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2018
... pressures and inflation expectations, and readings on financial and international developments." Ben Ong is the Director of Economics and Investments at Rainmaker Group. He previously worked as a fund manager, economist, asset allocation strategist ...

Chief economist update: RBA stuck in slow inflation lane

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2018
... exchange rate. Looks like it'll be "plus c'est la meme chose" for the RBA for a little longer. Ben Ong is the Director of Economics and Investments at Rainmaker Group. He previously worked as a fund manager, economist, asset allocation strategist, portfolio ...

Capex brings cheer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2017
... 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. His frustration was understandable for after ...

YBR founder to lead government taskforce

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 21 NOV 2017
... McCluskey. BGA Digital managing director Gerd Schenkel, Assistant Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science Craig Laundy and House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics chair David Coleman will also join the group. "Evidence shows that ...

Banks narrowly avoid parliamentary inquiry

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2017
... Commission-style inquiry after a Green's Bill to establish a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry fell short by a single vote in the House of Representatives yesterday. The Bill, which successfully passed the Senate with the backing of Labor, One Nation ...

Major banks receive Budget shakeup

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... next four years to complete regular inquiries into specific financial system competition issues - a recommendation of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics' Review of the Four Major Banks. These measures are in addition to the ...

NAB chief promises greater accountability

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 6 MAR 2017
... second round of the banking inquiry in Canberra on Friday. Thorburn and chief operating officer Anthony Cahill faced the House of Representative's Standing Committee on Economics, representing the first of the four major banks in an effort to review ...

In search of that elusive Australian animal spirit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2017
... nothing much has changed over the past 30 months - the time back in August 2014 when then RBA Governor Glenn Stevens told the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics that he has done enough. "You can't make people be confident, I certainly ...