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Chief economist update: The euro's doing Trump's work in the Eurozone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2018
... "lose-lose" situation of a trade war is averted. Still, this will continue to task the minds of investors and more especially, central bankers, everywhere, as to how to react and mitigate the uncertainty that is Trump on their respective economies. Case ...

Chief economist update: Home cooling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2018
... year to end-February. The year-on-year growth rate has slowed some more to 1.1% as at the 20th of March. The Australian central bank would definitely welcome this orderly slowdown in property price growth, particularly in terms of its efforts to lessen ...

Zurich hires risk strategy specialist, retains OnePath brand

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2018
... financial advice profession, we believe that adviser education has never been more important. In this role, Adam will be central in ensuring advisers are equipped with the best knowledge, tools and resources to make the best decisions for their customers ...

Chief economist update: Plotting the dots

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2018
... taking the fed funds rate to 1.5%-1.75% - CME FedWatch Tool has the probability of a rate hike at 94.4% - when the US central bank concludes its two-day FOMC meeting on 21 March. But perhaps, the right statement is not that markets are widely expecting ...

Chief economist update: Hostage to speculations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018
... positive and strengthening growth in the domestic economy should, in time, lift measured inflation towards the Japanese central bank's 2% inflation target. This is exactly what financial markets and economists are prognosticating -- the same chain of ...

PIMCO sells Aussie banks as correction looms

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2018
... news" implied by above-trend global growth and "gently rising inflation." Exacerbating this is the wider global trend of central banks tightening monetary policy. "While fundamentals and technicals keep us invested, our assessment of valuations argues ...

Chief economist update: Australia cruising at low altitude

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2018
... remain on hold through to end-2018 with the potential for more government spending - read, tax cuts - as government and central bank try to shift economic growth into a higher gear. If you want to read further, below is a snippet from the Financial Standard ...

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

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
... Economics Guide: Making sense of key economic data These were reasons enough for both the ANZ and NAB to expect the Australian central bank to lift the official cash rate twice this year. In September 2017, the AFR printed that the ANZ "forecast the ...

Insto mandate seeds Aviva fund launch

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
... the first year for a long time where there is going to be net supply from governments "that's not totally knocked up by central bank buying through their QE programs." He adds the "marginal investor" has also played a role where bond prices have been ...

Chief economist update: The risks just got real

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2018
An influx of economic data and surveys are set for release this week. The central banks of Australia, Canada, the Eurozone and Japan are also scheduled to meet. Don't bother with any of them. Whatever the indicators indicate and the central banks decide ...