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Chief economist update: Wall Street wails on inflation indications

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2018
"Be careful what you wish for." It's a well-known truism in the current economic cycle that the world's major central banks (the BOE excluded) have been wishin' and hopin' and thinkin' and prayin' for inflation to climb to their target rates. It appears ...

Chief economist update: Euro's uptrend is a downtrend risk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2018
... not a few anticipated ECB president Mario Draghi to deliver a less dovish message (at the very least) after the European Central Bank's first governing council meeting for 2018. Perhaps, the underlying reason for investors' increased appetite for the ...

Chief economist update: RBA stuck in slow inflation lane

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2018
... inflation higher, there also wouldn't be sufficient demand to pull consumer prices up. A dynamic not lost on the Australian central bank. In its August 2017 'Statement on Monetary Policy', the RBA stated that, "expectations for low real wage growth remain ...

Institutional investors on the march in fixed income

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2018
... respondents believe the global economy is strengthening, while 70% are neutral. Moreover, 35% of APAC respondents believe central banks in the region will move from quantitative easing to quantitative tightening. Investors in the region are most concerned ...

Derivatives costly and ineffective: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2018
... positive returns since the global financial crisis. Investment returns in six of those years have been no lower than 8.7% as central banks around the world have flooded markets with liquidity, pumping up asset prices. However, market cycles continue ...

Chief economist update: The angel in the details

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2018
... inflation gauge - only inching up to 1.5% in the year to the December 2017 quarter (from 1.4% in the previous period), the US central bank could afford to remain gradual and gentle towards policy normalisation. Ben Ong is the Director of Economics and ...

Chief economist update: Red light on greenback

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2018
... would become lower even more. Instead of speculating over exit strategies and taper, the Bank of Japan and the European Central Bank may find themselves expanding their stimulus measures in order to cheapen their respective currencies versus the US dollar. ...

Chief economist update: No stealth tapering, no exit strategy...yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2018
... market. But Japan still needs a weaker yen if it's to get to the promise land of 2% inflation. To be sure, the Japanese central bank expects the core inflation rate (all items less fresh food) to rise from 0.8% in 2017 to 1.4% this year and 1.8% in 2019- ...

Supervised Investments wins global fixed income mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2018
... value of the strategy, J.P. Morgan Asset Management head of Australia funds David Hallifax said: "The key to 2018 will be central banks and the extent to which they continue to support bond markets through ultra-accommodative policies. Our strategy employs ...

Money managers eye household debt

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2018
The US Federal Reserve is raising interest rates and other central banks have signalled they too will pare stimulatory measures introduced in the wake of the GFC, all of which has significant consequences for money managers in 2018. The Reserve Bank ...