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Chief economist update: Future path of fed funds rate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2019
... 2020. The unemployment rate is predicted to be at 3.7% (from 3.6% forecast in June) this year and the next. PCE price inflation forecasts were untouched at 1.5% and 1.9% in 2019 and 2020, respectively. These were, more or less, the same numbers that ...

Chief economist update: Fed future move depends on dollar direction

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2019
... term. We have the great currency, power, and balance sheet..." "The USA should always be paying the lowest rate. No Inflation! It is only the naivete of Jay Powell and the Federal Reserve that doesn't allow us to do what other countries are already ...

Chief economist update: Whatever it takes, however long it takes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2019
... go out with a bang (his last month in office) and do "whatever it takes" to mitigate the growing risks to growth and inflation." The article contained two mea culpas: (one) an erratum - ECB president Marion Draghi's last day at the office is 31 October ...

Global manager wins Zurich mandate

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2019
... global manager. Zurich Investment Management has allocated an undisclosed amount to Insight Investment's Diversified Inflation Plus Fund for its diversified strategies - including its 40-year-old Managed Growth Fund - as it looks to protect against uncertain ...

Chief economist update: RBA not risking market disappointment

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2019
... will be required in Australia to make progress in reducing unemployment and achieve more assured progress towards the inflation target. The Board will continue to monitor developments, including in the labour market, and ease monetary policy further ...

MLC terminates fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2019
... (Australia shares, diversified debt, global property, global shares property securities and others) and index plus, inflation plus and diversified portfolios.

Chief economist update: Super Mario's last hurrah

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2019
... favourable and support the euro area expansion, the ongoing build-up of domestic price pressures, and, thus, headline inflation developments over the medium term." This was what European Central Bank (ECB) president Mario Draghi told his audience (and ...

Chief economist update: What price Australian budget surplus?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2019
... grow by 2.75% (1.8% in the year to the March 2019 quarter); the unemployment rates at 5.0% (5.2% in July 2019); CPI inflation at 2.25% (1.6% in the March 2019 quarter); and, wages growth of 2.75% (2.3% in the June 2019 quarter). Aside from stating the ...

Chief economist update: Jerome is in the Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2019
... meeting rather than a 25 basis point reduction. They favored a stronger action to better address the stubbornly low inflation rates of the past several years, recognizing that the apparent low sensitivity of inflation to levels of resource utilization ...

Chief economist update: The hazard of being a safe haven

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2019
... geo-political - will keep the Japanese yen well-bid, frustrating the Japanese central bank's efforts at lifting inflation. Already, the BOJ's small progress on core inflation has reversed. After reaching a five-month high of 0.9% in April, Japan's ...