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Chief economist update: Coronavirus cures climate change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2020
... pandemic. This is in addition to a number of monetary policy support measures planned and already implemented by many central banks of the world. In China the PBOC announced targeted required reserve ratio (RRR) cuts that it said will release 550 billion ...

Alternatives to lead the way: J.P. Morgan

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2020
... director global market strategist, told Financial Standard that the huge swing in stimulus measures coming from central banks may help support economic growth but will push rates lower. "That is going to have a negative effect on income generated by ...

Trump slams Fed in Twitter tirade

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2020
... Federal Reserve are slow to act," he tweeted. "Germany and others are pumping money into their economies. Other Central Banks are much more aggressive. The U.S. should have, for all of the right reasons, the lowest Rate. We don't, putting us at a ...

Virus fallout worse than GFC: IMF

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
... with the post-9/11 terrorist attacks but lower than after the global financial crisis." In response, the IMF said central banks must be prepared to provide "ample liquidity" and banks and non-bank finance companies. The fund also called on governments ...

Chief economist update: The crash we have to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
... activity) wrought by coronaphobia is shaking what has become an orthodoxy since the Global Financial Crisis that central banks are the new masters of the universe. Grexit, the Jasmine Revolution, North Korea's missile launches, Brexit and Trump's ...

Equities not that expensive: Hamish Douglass

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2020
... Quoting Warren Buffett, Douglass said the value of assets and investments are 100% sensitive to interest rates. "Central banks are trying to stimulate economies with these policies of super low interest rates," he said. "But at the same time, they're ...

Chief economist update: A crisis of supply, demand and confidence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2020
... finance ministers and central bank governors of the G7 to assure us, mere mortals, of a concerted response. Several central banks have already cut interest rates led by the Reserve Bank of Australia and underscored by the US Federal Reserve's inter-meeting ...

Chief economist update: Australia's gentle turning point to turn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2020
... the counter-measures planned and already implemented by Chinese authorities and the on-going concerted action by central banks around the world. The RBA's recent rate cut (and promise of more if necessary), the Morrison government's ready to ...

Chief economist update: Welcome to the day after tomorrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2020
... firepower, when the next threat to the global economy comes. The coronavirus outbreak has brought that day upon us. Central banks (and government authorities) are engaged in a concerted/coordinated scrambling to mitigate the negative impact of the spreading ...

Chief economist update: The C word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2020
... television. "There will be concerted action." The power of the equity markets at its best! Sure, individual country central banks and fiscal authorities have been acting/giving assurances of supporting their respective domestic economies as cases of ...