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Chief economist update: Be fearful when indicators show no fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2019
... back to normality, punctuated by NY Fed president John Williams' recent comment that the Fed funds rate is now at neutral. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) shifted its policy stance from tightening to neutral; the European Central Bank (ECB) launched ...

Benchmark APRA against global counterparts: Treasury

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2019
APRA's first capability review should consider benchmarking it against comparable prudential regulators around the globe, says its terms of reference which are now open for response. Last month, the Government agreed to undertake regular capability ...

Chief economist update: What's the RBA waiting for?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2019
... what happens when the labour market turns down? I turned optimistic when the RBA changed its stance from tightening to neutral, hoping that it would be enough to turn sentiment around and take the A$ lower - itself an equilibrating force on the economy ...

GPT sells MLC Centre for $800 million

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2019
... Smith Street, Parramatta and office development in Melbourne Central. The sale of MLC Centre is expected to be broadly neutral to the group's earnings. The transaction is expected to settle in early April.

Chief economist update: Prepare for lift-off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2019
... Bank of England ("an ongoing tightening of monetary policy would be appropriate"); Bank of Canada ("interest rates to its neutral range 2.5% -3.5%); and the Reserve Bank of Australia ("the next move in interest rate is likely to be up rather than down"). ...

Chief economist update: European Central Bank policy U-turn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019
... its 7 March 2019 Governing Council meeting. Just as Financial Standard called for RBA rate cuts and the Fed's now at neutral ahead of the pact, we also anticipated the coming of a fresh LTRO ahead of the pack in November last year. My apologies for ...

Chief economist update: Cash rate should be 1%

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2019
... the economy of $2.9 million." RBA rate cut here we come. According to the AFR, "Ten forecasters challenge the RBA's neutral monetary policy bias", with all now expecting one (or two) 25 basis point rate cuts this year. They've now come around ...

Mixed year for local market neutral funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2019
Australian market neutral funds returned a disappointing -3.2% last year on average but the style still remains an important portfolio diversifier, according to Zenith head of equities Quan Nguyen. The -3.2% after fee returns are roughly in line with ...

Chief economist update: How would you vote if seated on the RBA board?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2019
... official cash rate, with the Australian central bank itself just recently changing its policy bias from tightening to neutral. Note, Westpac recently announced two rate reductions of 25 bps each - one in August, another in November this year. No doubt ...

Chief economist update: The Fed has hit neutral

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2019
... "aside from those transitory effects, we expect that inflation will run close to 2%." The US Federal Reserve has reached neutral - the "neutral interest rate" level, that is - the Goldilocks state of monetary policy where it is neither accommodative ...