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Chief economist update: The greatest challenge of our time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2019
Inflation is dead! Bond markets celebrate! News headlines have picked up on the fall and fall in the yield offered by 10-year US Treasuries. The yield closed at 2.24% overnight, down from 2.26% the day before - the lowest since September 2017. But the ...

Chief economist update: Glass half-full or US recession on the way?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2019
... sit it out. After all, one-half of its dual mandate is not only half-full it's boiling over. America's unemployment rate was clocked at 3.6% in April - this is the lowest rate of joblessness in nearly five decades (December 1969) - stoking consumer ...

Chief economist update: RBA to take rates to fresh record low

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2019
... that meeting, we discussed a scenario in which there was no further improvement in the labour market and the unemployment rate remained around the 5% mark. In this scenario, we judged that inflation was likely to remain low relative to the target and ...

Chief economist update: June RBA rate cut not a sure bet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2019
... rational financial market reactions to the latest labour market stats. The seasonally adjusted series shows the unemployment rate increased to 5.2% in April from 5.1% in the previous month; the under-employment rate rose to 8.5% from 8.2%, and the under-utilisation ...

Chief economist update: Low unemployment, low wages growth conundrum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2019
... indicated at its May board meeting, the Australian central bank's bias is tilted towards the relatively low unemployment rate than below-target inflation as its forward guidance suggests, "the Board will be paying close attention to developments ...

Chief economist update: Same challenges, differing reactions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2019
... Zealand's economy. Just like Australia, New Zealand's labour market remains strong. The country's unemployment rate has trended lower since the 6.7% high recorded in the third quarter of 2012 to a near 10-year low of 4.2% in the March 2019 ...

Chief economist update: RBA refused to blink in May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2019
... stance of policy unchanged" at neutral. It appears the RBA's bias has tilted towards the relatively low unemployment rate than below-target inflation as its forward guidance suggests, "the board will be paying close attention to developments in the ...

Chief economist update: Policy of patience

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2019
... world, the most difficult and the most intellectual." More so for the Fed that's caught between two-lows: low unemployment rate (3.8% in March which is a point above a 49-year low) and low inflation - headline and core PCE price index below target ...

Chief economist update: S&P raises Duterte ratings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2019
... these. As "BusinessWorld" - a Philippine daily - prints: "The debt watcher noted the decline in the country's unemployment rate as well as economic and fiscal policies that have resulted in "manageable" fiscal deficits and improved spending and revenues ...

Chief economist update: A good problem to have?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2019
... saw GDP grow by a stronger than expected annualised rate of 3.2% in the March 2019 quarter, not to mention the unemployment rate that remains at near-49 year lows. There was also the headline PCE price index - the Fed's preferred measure of inflation ...