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Relax rate expectations: Franklin Templeton

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2022
... market's current interest rate expectations are too aggressive. In its latest review of the outlook for inflation and monetary policy, Franklin Templeton said it remains of the view that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) should take a measured approach ...

Investors Mutual, Vaughan Nelson partner

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2022
... are leaving an economy where everyone does well. "When you leave a decade where you've relied excessively on monetary policy, they do incredibly well, they generate these low to mid to high teen returns and then they enter this self-correction phase ...

GDP rises but headwinds abound

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2022
... presents the next Budget in October. "The RBA has also started increasing rates, suggesting that its accommodative monetary policy will be tightened gradually. "We now lower our 2023 growth forecast to 2.3% (earlier: 2.7%; RBA: 2.0%), to account for ...

RBA outlines next phase of bond purchase program

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2022
... importantly, the bank will continue to be able to maintain effective control over the cash rate as it withdraws monetary policy stimulus in the period ahead."

Yellen forebodes stagflation risks

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2022
... such an event materialising, Yellen maintained that while the US had inflation, the Federal Reserve's tightening monetary policy was addressing recession concerns. "I don't expect the US to fall into recession; I think Europe is perhaps a bit more vulnerable ...

US stocks crumble after Jerome Powell's hawkish comments

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 APR 2022
... Reserve officials from around the world have indicated they too will aim to combat inflation through tightened monetary policy with interest rate hikes. It was only earlier this week that the Reserve Bank of Australia minutes strongly insinuated that ...

US, UK hike interest rates

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2022
... England since December. For the first time, rates in the UK are now at a pre-pandemic level. The Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee said the invasion of Ukraine by Russia has led to further large increases in energy and other commodity prices ...

Guy Debelle resigns from RBA

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2022
... would like to thank Guy for his outstanding service to the RBA over many years. He has made major contributions to monetary policy, to financial market operations and to the management of the bank. Guy has been a great colleague and I wish him all the ...

Learn to live with inflation: BlackRock

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2022
... driven by supply side and that diagnosis is important in that it has implications for, frankly, the relevance of monetary policy in particular." Adding to the discussion, BlackRock Australia's head of fixed income Craig Vardy said locally, he remains ...

Chief economist: Is this a buy op?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2022
... consumption and, by extension, company earnings and investment returns. Expectations for an RBA tightening of monetary policy (if it eventuates) would compound the downward pressure on domestic economic growth. Indeed, along with supply-chain constraints ...