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Chief economist update: Policy of patience

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2019
... said. "The Committee continues to view sustained expansion of economic activity, strong labor market conditions, and inflation near the Committee's symmetric 2% objective as the most likely outcomes. In light of global economic and financial developments ...

Chief economist update: A good problem to have?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2019
... that's blowing into the equity market, the US Federal Reserve's problem of continued strong growth and below-target inflation is a good problem to have. This is underscored by the latest stat updates that saw GDP grow by a stronger than expected ...

Chief economist update: Inflation is dead

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 APR 2019
Those were the days my friends, we thought would never end... but they ended. The days when measured inflation would go from minus 3% to plus 14%, give or take, back in the grim old days from the 1950s to the late 1980s are no more. Back then the monetarists ...

Chief economist update: Lock in two RBA rate cuts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2019
The stats are out and it reveals that Australian consumer price inflation has softened... big time. There's no other option for the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to cut interest rates soon and twice. The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) ...

Income only falls by 11% in retirement: Grattan

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2019
... Australian workers can expect a retirement income of at least 89% of their pre-retirement income even when accounting for inflation. This is a two percentage point revision to its earlier projections published in November. "This is well above the 70% ...

Chief economist update: The bad oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019
... spur reductions in business investment in plant, equipment, and staff. More worrying, higher crude oil prices lifts inflation. This could dissuade or prevent central banks from following through on their recent switch to more accommodative policies - ...

Chief economist update: Japan yearns for a weaker yen

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2019
... reading falling to 8 in the March quarter from 15 in the previous three-month period. Japan's headline consumer price inflation remained at a 15-month low of 0.2% in February while core inflation eased to 0.7% from 0.8% in January and after peaking ...

Chief economist update: Two indicators giving the Fed a headache

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2019
... statutory dual mandate - price stability and maximum employment. The St. Louis Fed explains: "The FOMC interprets an inflation rate of 2% as consistent with price stability. As such, the FOMC adopted an explicit inflation target of 2% in January 2012." ...

Chief economist update: ECB digs deeper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2019
... HICP inflation's now seen to reach only 1.2% (from 1.8% previously) this year and 1.5% (from 1.6%) in 2020. HICP inflation stood at 1.5% in the year to February; core inflation at 1% - both below the ECB's 2% target. Fast forward to the present ...

AMP Capital invests in student accommodation

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 1 APR 2019
... in this sector for our clients. Our large-scale portfolio of beds now provides our investors with access to long-term inflation-linked contracts with Australia's top [three] ranked universities." The accommodation was managed by H.R.L. Morrison and ...