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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2016
... the year-on-year growth in overall credit up by 6.6% -- accelerating from January's annual rate of 6.5%. More important, Glenn Stevens appears to have made "the horses drink". Business credit gained 0.7% in February for a year-on-year rate of 6.5%. Credit ...

With pretty numbers like these, who needs a rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2016
... January. With pretty numbers like these, who needs a rate cut? And were it not for still low inflation in the country, RBA Gov Glenn and his merry men would be pondering a rate hike instead. But note that one of the positives identified by Australian ...

A "chilling" moment for the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 FEB 2016
... US dollar (which it already has) and take down the Australian dollar. This would be a "chilling" moment for RBA Governor Glenn Stevens.

ZIRP to bring back "animal spirits"?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2016
... volatile up to this day. Seems like nothing much has changed in 18 months - the time back in August 2014 when RBA Governor Glenn Stevens told the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics that he has done enough, "You can't make people ...

Dimensional expands with new Melbourne office

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2016
... Collins Street, the heartland of Australian industry super fund sector. Dimensional Australia chairman and chief executive Glenn Crane said some of the firm's Sydney staff had already relocated to Melbourne, which has topped The Economist magazine's ...

Strength in (A$) weakness

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2016
... overly too presumptuous, of course. But despite headline upon headlines that the "sky is falling" on Australia, the good Gov Glenn appeared unnerved... or to use his own words (last December), "chilled". At the RBA yesterday, it was a steady as she goes ...

RBA Gov on Fed lift-off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015
... uncertain of its ramifications - immediate and longer term. Not even the good governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), Glenn Stevens, it seems. In his regular end-of-year tete-a-tete with the Australian Financial Review (AFR), Gov Glenn admitted ...

Local shares lacklustre in 2016

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2015
... indications point to markets being in for more of the same during 2016 as they faced this year. "Recently Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stephens hosed down expectations around how much our local economy will grow. In this environment the focus of investors ...

Governance bill loses Senators' support

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2015
... government will need six of the eight crossbench votes to see the proposed legislation pass but Senators Jacqui Lambie, Glenn Lazarus, John Madigan and Nick Xenophon have agreed on a final-minute alternative deal. The final legislative vote is expected ...

December moves

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2015
... most exciting months this year. It's as certain as sure that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) would remain on hold. Gov Glenn already said so himself. "We should just chill out, come back and see what the data says." It's as certain as sure that by ...