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Chief economist update: Getting better, but not better enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2021
... who "quite forgot how to speak good English", there appears to be universal optimism over the economic outlook as central banks watch "through the looking glass". This sentiment is echoed by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA). In its March 2 meeting ...

Chief economist update: Fed fights back bond bears

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2021
... bonds relative to undulating company stock prices and their dividend payouts. But hold your horses! Major world central banks, led by the Fed, are singing the chorus from Cher's classic, "I really don't think you're strong enough now..." ...

Chief economist update: The cloud over the rainbow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2021
... that'll eventually end up in higher prices for goods and services that, in turn, will make it imperative for global central banks and fiscal authorities to reverse loose policy pledges. We all know what higher bond yields do to the stockmarket, they ...

Careful portfolio rebalances needed: First Sentier

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021
... the 'liquidity forever' theme," co-head of multi-asset solutions, Kej Somaia said. "That is, the expectation that central banks will retain their loose monetary policy for the foreseeable future. This in itself may spark investors to pause and revisit ...

Chief economist update: COVID with a vengeance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2021
... reaction has been relatively muted. Sterling's effective exchange rate has depreciated by 2.5% in 2020 -because central banks around the world have been responding almost in unison (through increased policy accommodation), leaving no single central ...

Super SA to close growth option

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2020
... Funds SA. "Due to the unprecedented easing of monetary policy by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and global central banks, yields for short-term fixed interest securities (defensive assets) have fallen towards zero per cent," the fund said. "This ...

RBA measures not solely due to COVID: Treasury

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2020
... population ageing, the productivity slowdown and lower preferences for risk among investors," Kennedy said. "A number of central banks have suggested that interest rates will not rise for many years." Kennedy said that even when the cash rate returns ...

Chief economist update: RBA negative on negative interest rate policy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2020
... down to negative back in 2014 and the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) target rate had been below zero since 2016. Both central banks have not taken interest rates deeper into the negative to counteract the negative impact of the coronavirus pandemic on their ...

Investors will be forced into equities: DeepData Analytics

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2020
... Wall Street reacted to the outbreak of COVID-19. Since March lows, markets have rebounded to pre-COVID levels as central banks and governments around the world rolled out massive stimulus measures.

Robinhood effect steers share market

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020
... point to the "seeds of the next boom" as evidenced in unprecedented stimulus from governments and money supplied by central banks across the globe. What puts it at risk, she warned, is if the money supply contracted or was pulled away. Then there is ...