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Chief economist update: Japan tightens fiscal policy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2019
... marking the 22nd straight month of decline since peaking at 44.6 in November 2017. Japan's biggest challenge is inflation. Headline CPI inflation slowed to 0.3% in the year to August from 0.4% in the previous month. Core CPI inflation eased to 0.5% ...

Chief economist update: Zero here we go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2019
... to lower interest rates further today to support employment and income growth and to provide greater confidence that inflation will be consistent with the medium-term target...and is prepared to ease monetary policy further if needed to support sustainable ...

MLC funds tone down return expectations

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2019
... expects lower returns for some of its funds, in light of "unusually low cash rates" and is cutting fees. MLC wholesale inflation plus portfolios are offered in three profiles: assertive, moderate and conservative. They aimed to beat inflation by 6% ...

Chief economist update: The greatest central banker of modern times

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2019
... from 47.0 in August) and the decline in the services sector (to 52.0 from 53.5). Moreover, both headline (1%) and core inflation (0.9%) remains below the ECB's target (2%). Still, these are still early times and monetary policy operates with a lag. ...

Chief economist update: RBA cuts official cash rate to 0.75%

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2019
... will be required in Australia to make progress in reducing unemployment and achieving more assured progress towards the inflation target," he said. "The board is prepared to ease monetary policy further if needed to support sustainable growth in the ...

Treasury agreed with Grattan SG modelling

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2019
... said most workers can expect retirement income of at least 91% of their pre-retirement income, even after allowing for inflation, which is well above OECD levels. Superannuation leaders panned Grattan's SG recommendation, which it published as a ...

Chief economist update: Time for a Keynes comeback

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2019
... providing no multiplier effect in terms of growing the economy. Years of accommodative monetary policy has failed to lift inflation to within central bank targets. They've only lifted asset prices, a situation which would ultimately become a future ...

Chief economist update: The BOJ needs to run faster to stay in the running

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2019
... €20 billion from 1 November; and forward-guided that "remain at their present or lower levels until we have seen the inflation outlook robustly converge to a level sufficiently close to, but below, 2% within our projection horizon". The general uncertainty ...

Chief economist update: This is a job for the RBA (and the Treasury)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2019
... the labour market slack - the RBA thinks the unemployment rate could drop to around 4.5% without putting pressure on inflation - forget about asking for a pay rise. More so, because the number of already employed workers wanting more hours - the underemployment ...

Colchester launches new fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2019
... which are increasingly consigning historical volatility to the past. "They are broadly characterised as having contained inflation, limited current account deficits, larger international reserves, are net exporters of capital, borrow in domestic currency ...