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Chief economist update: Morrison, Frydenberg cannot have their surplus and eat it too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2019
... The Australian Financial Review 's (AFR) headlines say it all: "Morrison warns banks not to get 'sheepish" (September 25) and "Don't force banks to curb loans" - uttered by Australian Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg (September 26). In a ...

Results of ASIC MDA review imminent

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2019
... has issued quite a number of MDA licences in the last couple of years since they released the updated class order in September 2016. In that intervening three years, they've issued a large number of MDA licences so that implies they've been comfortable ...

Chief economist update: Time for a Keynes comeback

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2019
... around the slowing momentum in global economic growth. In its 'Interim Economic Outlook' report published on September 19, the OECD lowered its world economic growth forecast from 3.6% in 2018 to 2.9% (down from 3.2% forecast in May 2019) this ...

Chief economist update: The BOJ needs to run faster to stay in the running

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2019
... in spite of recent developments: The US Federal Reserve has just cut interest rates a second time just at its 17-18 September FOMC meeting just hours before and the European Central Bank (ECB) - when they met on the 12th of the same month - lowered the ...

Thousands strike from work for climate

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2019
... their employees the day off to protest, including Australian Ethical, Future Super and IRESS. The protests,scheduled for September 20, are happening three days out from the UN climate summit. The protests are urging politicians to act immediately to ...

Chief economist update: This is a job for the RBA (and the Treasury)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2019
... Westpac-Melbourne Institute 'unemployment expectations index' rose by 10.6% (year-on-year) to a reading of 133.6 in September - portend not good tidings and explain the recent weakness in consumer confidence and retail spending. Given the labour ...

Chief economist update: Future path of fed funds rate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2019
... financial market expectations by cutting the fed funds rate another 25 basis points to 1.75%-2% at the conclusion of the September FOMC meeting. There was little movement in the US financial markets for as Financial Standard declared just three days ...

ASIC super specialist joins AIST

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2019
... AIST in the role in 2017. Goodwin has now joined Cbus as its new strategic public policy advisor. Birks joined ASIC in September last year from Link Group where she served as industry initiatives manager. She initially joined Link as client partnership ...

Chief economist update: Plenty of oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2019
Oil prices soared after a drone attack on September 14 on Saudi Arabia's Abqaiq oil-processing plant (estimated to produce around 5% of global oil supply). WTI and Brent crude oil prices jumped by 14.6%, to US$62.88 per barrel and US$69.03/barrel ...

Northern Trust chair defends Woodford loan

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR, KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2019
... Capital Trust (WPCT) which is his only listed fund has a £150 million borrowing facility from Northern Trust. As of September 4, WPCT had withdrawn £113.7 million of it. At the time, the trust's geared position had increased marginally to 17.1% ...