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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 ...

Chief economist update: Australia low on credit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2018
... road but given the current slowing trend in private sector credit (in spite of record low interest rates) the Australian central bank won't be in a hurry. Total private sector credit growth barely moved, increasing to 4.89% in the year to January from ...

Chief economist update: New Fed chief, same policy direction (but more transparent)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2018
... leadership transition and provide for continuity in monetary policy." But more than this is Powell's statement regarding the central bank's transparency: "Transparency is the foundation for our accountability, and I am committed to clearly explaining ...

IOOF licensee launches MDA solution

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2018
An IOOF-aligned dealer group is introducing a new managed discretionary account service to its adviser network. Lonsdale Financial Group has launched Managed Portfolio Service on the Asset Administrator platform, its white label of BT Panorama. The ...

Chief economist update: Three minutes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2018
Three out of three central banks kept monetary settings unchanged at their most recent meetings - what's more important is where the central banks think we are and where they plan to take us. The minutes of the meetings of the Reserve Bank of Australia ...

Chief economist update: Wagering on wages

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2018
... Reading from the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) monetary policy statement after its 6 February meeting, the Australian central bank is wagering on the same: "Notwithstanding the improving labour market, wage growth remains low. This is likely to continue ...

Chief economist update: The yen's on the up and up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2018
... policy stimulus measures - one that has continued to this day despite BOJ governor Haruhiko Kuroda stressing the Japanese central bank's commitment towards maintaining its "Quantitative and Qualitative Monetary Easing (QQE) with a Negative Interest Rate" ...

Chief economist update: RBA sees wages growth recovering but it's not guaranteed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2018
... Conference in Sydney yesterday. "How resilient will consumption growth be if income growth stays weak?" Ellis asked. "Our central forecast is that this weakness will end as the drag from the end of the boom dissipates and spare capacity is absorbed ...

Scared of inflation? Try deflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2018
... developments" should be dancing on the streets and singing hallelujah for the latest indications only demonstrate that the US central bank is well on its way to achieving its goal of normalising monetary policy ever since it first raised the fed funds ...

Chief economist update: RBA to lift rates after 2018

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2018
... a-shopping. This also suggests market participants are getting their predictions closer to correct. How can they not when central banks are signalling their intents in real time and in some cases, signalling the change in their signal about their intent? ...