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Chief economist update: Turkey's roasted

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2018
... Erdogan's erroneous economic thinking - that high interest rates cause inflation - and his pledge to take greater of monetary policy if he wins re-election at the June 24 poll. He was re-elected, and dive deeper the lira went. The TCMB has already ...

Chief economist update: Younger migrants and the elderly keep wages low

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2018
... to talk about at his address to Anika Foundation Luncheon in Sydney the day after. Of course, Lowe spoke about monetary policy but he would have put the attendees to sleep with his nth reiteration of "...we see reasonable prospects that the economy will ...

Chief economist update: Heaven can wait but the BOE couldn't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018
... finally went ahead and did it. It lifted the Bank Rate by 25 basis points to 0.75% at the conclusion of its August Monetary Policy Council (MPC) meeting. To be sure, the British central bank had been itching to do so back in May. Despite the slowdown ...

Chief economist update: Laissez faire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2018
... industries he would need to compensate. The Chinese Government is being forced to engage in policy stimulation - fiscal and monetary - to counteract the negative impact of Trump's tariffs on its economy. And it's not only Beijing; other emerging ...

Chief economist update: BOJ to stop throwing good money after bad?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2018
... Japan (BOJ) or rather speculations (again) that it's discussing possible changes to its looser-than-loose monetary policy. There are so many combinations and permutations as to what the BOJ would do but perhaps the more remarkable is the speculation ...

Chief economist update: Lessons from the last world trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2018
... decisions." ECB President Mario Draghi: "It's not easy and it's not yet time to see what the consequences on monetary policy of all this can be but there's no ground to be optimistic on that..."What's the effect on confidence? What's ...

Chief economist update: Three ayes for a rate hike

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018
... points to 0.75% at its next meeting on August 3. The reason is the vote count. Three members (against six) of the Monetary Policy Council (MPC) voted to raise the Bank Rate at its June meet as against only two when it convened in May and nil in March. ...

Chief economist update: Should have sold in May and gone away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2018
... who feel they'll be worse off dropped from 50% to 25%. Lastly, not only is fiscal policy being loosened but monetary policy remains accommodative with the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) not expected to raise interest rates until sometime next year. ...

PIMCO partners with data and analytics platform

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2018
... growth and "gently rising inflation." Exacerbating this is the wider global trend of central banks tightening monetary policy.

Chief economist update: BOE fails market expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2018
... 2017 that took the Bank rate up to 0.5% with another 25 bps increase when it meets again on May 10. The Bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) met as scheduled, but decided to keep monetary policy settings unchanged. The FTSE-100 index closed 0.5% higher ...