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Guest of honour

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 3 JAN 2017
... industry than some younger entrants. "We didn't have calculators," he says, "so I got a very good understanding of how interest rates work. Nowadays, when someone at a bank doesn't understand something, they pull up the computer and get that to work ...

A$ drop brings good cheers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 DEC 2016
... time that that depreciation boost economic growth. This would put upward pressure on inflation and on domestic interest rates - US/Aus interest rate differential narrows - and lifts the A$ back up. Happy Christmas to all and may your days be happy and ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 DEC 2016
... month's 26 reading. Japan monetary policy decision As was widely expected, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) kept its benchmark interest rates unchanged minus 0.1% at its 20 December meeting. The Japanese central bank also maintained its yield target for 10-year ...

MYEFO: Surplus of promises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 DEC 2016
... imperative for the government to do the Keynesian thing and spend. It's time to crowd-in private investment (while interest rates remain relatively low). We only have to look at the goodwill and raised growth expectations engendered by President-elect ...

The year that was and the year that will be

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 DEC 2016
... we bid 2016 adieu! And what a year 2016 was. It scared you, I and Irene at the open. The Fed was going to raise interest rates and China's economy was heading for hard landing. These two factors alone (never mind what's happening in Europe and Japan) ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2016
... since April - from 101.3 in November and 102.4 in October, driven by increased worries about the domestic economy, interest rates and employment. Twelve month ahead economic expectations dropped by 5.2% in December from November while expectations over ...

The good and the bad in the Fed rate hike

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2016
... that the total number of dwellings approved dropped by 24.9% over the same period. These could fall even more as interest rates continue to increase. Already, the big four banks have raised mortgage rates as they try to offset the pressure on their interest ...

Secure your seat at Chief Economists Forum

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 13 DEC 2016
... US election changed the financial market's consensus narrative. "Before 8 November, the storyline was ultra-low interest rates, deflation pressures, slow growth, um...forever - or at least the foreseeable future. After all, that really had been the environment ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2016
... the repo rate unchanged at 6.25% following its 7 December policy meeting. Most analysts expected the RBI to cut interest rates - coming as it would have immediately after October's surprise 25 basis point reduction - in order to alleviate the "cash crisis" ...

Return to value-based investing on horizon

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2016
... during short-term cyclical events is very important," Murray said. Drivers for this have included record low global interest rates, lower growth and earnings over recent years forcing investors into defensive stock positions; stocks that now seem to ...