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Chief economist update: Lessons from the last world trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2018
... and centre of the issue, it's anybody's guess. But the fact is it's already worrying the world's biggest central banks, which expressed their concerns at the ECB Forum on Central Banking held at Sintra, Portugal on 18-20 June. US Fed ...

Best-in-show list addresses insurance gaps

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018
... underwriting arrangements and that Cbus will address it explicitly in its submission. "The board nature of our risk pool is central to our capacity to get good outcomes for members," she said. Campo added any changes to that will have the impact of increasing ...

Chief economist update: Three ayes for a rate hike

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018
Just like the other major world central banks that met before it this month - the Fed, ECB and BOJ - the Bank of England (BOE) did not disappoint market expectations (unlike in its May meeting where Governor Carney hinted at a rate hike months before ...

Chief economist update: RBA not cruising for a bruising

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2018
... that were it not for the RBA's concern over adding fuel to overheating property prices (at the time), the Australian central bank would have already cut rates mainly due to the stagnation in wages growth which is a negative for both inflation and ...

Multi-disciplinary industry trend continues: CBA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2018
... accounting space. Supporting this, in April of this year CountPlus advice practice Robson Partners acquired Walker & Andrews, a Central Coast accounting firm.

Chief economist update: Submerging markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2018
... Bloomberg... Developing nations including Turkey, Indonesia, India and Argentina have raised rates, while Brazil's central bank has sold extra foreign-exchange swap contracts in an effort to stabilise their markets." This is supported by Factset's ...

Chief economist update: Trade war and peace

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2018
... worth of US imports. It'll be pitiful if this escalates into an all-out global trade war and reverses the efforts of central bankers towards bringing abnormal monetary policies towards normality. Not when they are so near to achieving their goal ...

TCorp to issue sustainability bonds

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2018
... agencies. It had about $65 billion in total assets on its balance sheet, as at 30 June 2017. The NSW government's central borrowing authority turned around a pre-tax profit of $132 million. The debt instruments are guaranteed by the NSW Government ...

Chief economist update: ECB cannot be any clearer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2018
... Captain!, Walt Whitman Well its "nearly" done but let's not quibble about semantics. The revelations made by the European Central Bank (ECB) after its 14 June powwow shows the Governing Council believes that while they have yet to reach their final ...

Chief economist update: Another five minutes of sunshine?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018
... sure put a smile on Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison's face and vindicate the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) "central forecast for GDP growth to pick up, to average a bit above 3% in 2018 and 2019." Financial Standard's recently-published ...