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Chief economist update: Three minutes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2018
... financial markets' take on central banks' greater transparency and forward guidance is best explained by Bank of England (BOE) governor Mark Carney. In his testimony before the UK Parliament's Treasury Committee, Carney remarked that, "...the financial ...

Scared of inflation? Try deflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2018
... - that of a strong and strengthening global economy and this rising tide would float their own boats. The Bank of England (BOE) also kept policy unchanged - voting unanimously to maintain the Bank Rate at 0.50% (which it lifted by 25 bps last November) ...

Chief economist update: Wall Street wails on inflation indications

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2018
... 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: One hike this year, one hike next year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2018
... to 2.5% in December from a six-year high of 2.7% in November (3.1% in December 2011). This followed the Bank of England's (BOE) decision to raise the Bank Rate by 25 basis points to 0.5% at its 2 November 2017 meeting which, in turn, sent the British ...

Same old same old from the BOJ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017
While the Fed lifted interest rates at its final meet for 2017, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) followed the others - ECB, BOE, SNB - in keeping the status quo this side of the New Year. And like the rest of 'em, it's optimistic over the Japanese economy's ...

Expecting the expected

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2017
... from 1.0% this year but only its inflation projections to 0.5% this year and 0.7% in 2018. As expected, the Bank of England (BOE) left monetary policy settings where they were following what was also a well-telegraphed 25 basis point interest rate hike ...

What price Brexit certainty?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2017
... all surprising given the latest flow of stronger economic stats in the country - one that has prompted the Bank of England (BOE) to announce its first interest rate hike in more than a decade - it raised the Bank Rate from 0.25% to 0.5% on the 2nd of ...

Changed RBA rate expectations?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2017
... from the world's three biggest central banks that met last week. The Bank of Japan (BOJ), the Fed and the Bank of England (BOE) all delivered as expected but not without help from the repeated and reiterated "forward guidance" from the central bank chiefs ...

BOE does what it said it would do

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2017
The Bank of England (BOE) did what it said it would do -- it lifted the Bank Rate by 25 basis points to 0.5% following its 2 November monetary policy council meeting (MPC). The announcement marks the first time in more than a decade that the BOE raised ...

Two holds and a raise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 OCT 2017
... that ensures that the Fed keeps its word of another rate hike next month. Most interesting would be the Bank of England's (BOE) meeting on 2 November. Unlike America and Japan, the UK's has seen strong growth and above target inflation. But unlike in ...