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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2016
Australia housing finance The latest dwelling finance commitment report gave almost immediate evidence to the RBA governor Glenn Stevens' 7 June statement that, "Indications are that the effects of supervisory measures have strengthened lending standards ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2016
... prospects for continued growth in the economy, with inflation close to target" -- and nary a jawboning word from RBA governor Glenn Stevens, should keep the A$ well-bid in the near term. US housing starts There was a big disappointment in the latest ...

A "chilling" moment for the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 FEB 2016
... on the 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
... remain 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 ...

Lift-off off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
... concerns over slowing China and slumping commodity prices and slowing global growth and low-flation. As our very own RBA governor Glenn Stevens put it after the Fed's no-lift in September decision, "There will always be one piece of data that says hold ...

A question of trend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
Funny that. Funny that on the same day that RBA Governor Glenn Stevens addressed the Anika Foundation Luncheon in Sydney and told his audience that, "One of the features of much regular discussion of macroeconomic policy, and monetary policy in particular ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... 5,864. In local economic news on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia releases its April board meeting minutes while RBA governor Glenn Stevens delivers a speech at an American Australian Association lunch in New York. The Australian Bureau of Statistics ...

What might trigger a sell-off?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... and the bad and the bad" that spooked markets last Friday weren't really well... bad. Impressive is the workings of RBA governor Glenn Stevens' mind - one that he shared to his audience (and the world) last night in his "Address to The American Australian ...

Strike three

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
... rates steady last month when consensus expectations were for a follow up 25 bps cut in the official cash rate. The RBA governor did again on the first Tuesday of this month - "...the Board decided to leave the cash rate unchanged at 2.25 per cent" - ...

Another cut's in the mail?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2015
... RBA rate cut (to lower the A$ exchange rate) - on the first Tuesday of April or that of May. More so, because of RBA Governor Stevens' comments in relation to the Australian economy's "adjustment to the end of the investment phase of the 'mining boom'" ...