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Chief economist update: The Fed should act now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAR 2019
... US GDP grew by 4.9% in the year to December 1998, non-farm payrolls were growing at around 2.5% in the same year and inflation was rising. 'Tis the same in 2006 when the yield curve inverted - US GDP grew by 3.5% at the end of 2006 (even stronger ...

Chief economist update: A question of when?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2019
... But to recession, America's economy went. The Fed pause announced early this year has reversed the downtrend in inflation expectations seen in late December 2018/early January 2019. However, the recent resumption of the decline in inflation expectations ...

Chief economist update: Japan should raise taxes another day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2019
... the slowdown in overseas economies... it is likely to continue its moderate expansion." The same hope for a pick-up in inflation; "The year-on-year rate of increase in the CPI (less fresh food) is likely to continue accelerating moderately." As for risks ...

Chief economist update: Fed on ice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2019
... forecast to 2.1% (from 2.3% predicted in December 2018) and 1.9% (from 2.0%) in 2020. It also lowered the PCE price inflation outlook to 1.8% (from 1.9%) this year and to 2% (from 2.1%) in 2020. The Fed revised higher its median forecasts for the unemployment ...

Chief economist update: The AUD's resilience

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2019
... currency translation; Australians spend their money at home, staycations and so on. As well, given still below-RBA target inflation, would put upward pressure on inflation which, in turn, encourages consumer spending now lest prices continue increasing ...

RBA issues stern climate change warning

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2019
... saying: "The banana price episode in 2011 after Cyclone Yasi is a good example of this. "The spike in banana prices and inflation was temporary, although quite substantial. It boosted inflation by 0.7 percentage points." Debelle highlighted that supply ...

Chief economist update: What's the RBA waiting for?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2019
... Certainly, along with the persistent anaemic growth in wages, these would put more downward pressure to still below target inflation - the average of the trimmed mean and weighted median measures of CPI slowed to 1.75% in the December 2018 quarter from ...

Chief economist update: Breaking up is hard to do

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2019
... May 2018. Likewise, the country's unemployment rate has remained at 4.0% -- the lowest level since the 1970s - and inflation that shot up due to the depreciation of the pound sterling (resulting from the June 2016 vote) has returned to the BOE's ...

Chief economist update: Prepare for lift-off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2019
... a consequence to the Fed's rate hikes and expectations for more - sent emerging currencies down and raised both inflation and inflation expectations in emerging markets, necessitating their respective central banks to lift borrowing costs that, in ...

Chief economist update: European Central Bank policy U-turn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019
... 31 December 2018 - it's launched TLTRO III, for the same reasons the ECB chief listed - mainly slowing growth and inflation - following the conclusion of its 7 March 2019 Governing Council meeting. Just as Financial Standard called for RBA rate cuts ...