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Chief economist update: Bad news is good news is back

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2021
... back her talk at the "Future Economic Summit" suggesting that interest rates may need to rise to avoid overheating due to fiscal stimulus. Yellen explained that she did not predict nor recommend a lift in interest rates and that she agreed with Fed Chairman ...

Chief economist update: Did the BOE just announce taper?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2021
... activity. Demand growth is further boosted by a decline in health risks and a fall in uncertainty, as well as announced fiscal and monetary stimulus. Consumer spending is also supported by households running down over the next three years around 10% ...

Chief economist update: The Fed and Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2021
... they're now smothering the successes achieved during this pandemic? Kaplan is correct to be concerned. Extended monetary and fiscal stimulation is leading to "excesses and imbalances in financial markets" if not already. Still, it's better to ...

Chief economist update: Not yet time to make a change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2021
... consumers. More so, if they're expecting good jobs prospects, continued monetary policy accommodation and increased fiscal largesse. The latest Conference Board consumer confidence survey for April found that "the percentage of consumers saying jobs ...

Chief economist update: Low for longer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2021
... remained below the RBA's target - headline CPI and underlying measure at 1.9%. Surely, the demand (boosted by monetary and fiscal largesse) and supply (hindered by supply chain disruptions and social and business restrictions) is tilted towards higher ...

Go, iron ore, go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2021
... contribute to its growth renaissance, it'll also reduce Australia's budget deficit. In its Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) handed down in December 2020, the Treasury forecast that iron ore prices will drop to US$55.0 per tonne by ...

Chief economist update: The pause that refreshes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2021
... the US Federal Reserve's efforts at guiding the economy out of the pandemic. To be sure, US president Joe Biden's fiscal injections are cause for concern with regards to stoking inflation. As Factset reports, "Biden's stimulus plan continues ...

Chief economist update: Copper 10,000

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2021
... restrictions and/or businesses and consumers adapted to on-going pandemic restrictions, vaccine roll-outs and continued fiscal and monetary policy support. In its latest World Economic Outlook (WEO) released in April, the International Monetary Fund ...

Chief economist update: Australia's confidence contagion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2021
... consumer confidence... The healthier economy would eventually be transmitted into the improvement of the government's fiscal budget.

Chief economist update: No fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2021
... to come) and it's not so hard to understand equity market investors' "happy-ness". For not only are monetary and fiscal stimulus measures flooding the system with money, money, money, they're also lifting economic growth. This is evidenced ...