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Chief economist update: Equity market rally has legs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2019
... appropriate" etcetera. The BOC has also changed its tune to "continues to warrant a policy interest rate that is below its neutral range"; and the RBA? Yes, it's now saying that "the next-move-is-up scenarios were more likely than the next-move-is-down ...

Chief economist update: AUD misdirection

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2019
... guidance from the Fed that it will keep interest rates on ice for the remainder of 2019 and the RBA is presently on a neutral bias, both are expected to cut interest rates this year. Perhaps, the only explanation to the AUD's resilience is the 2019 ...

Chief economist update: No credit to the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 APR 2019
... very own Financial Aggregates report - released on March 29 - doesn't convince the board to switch from its current "neutral stance" to an interest rate cut very, very soon, by the time it does - and it will - it might be too late to reverse the ...

Chief economist update: The AUD's resilience

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2019
... resilience amid all these challenges and despite the Australian central bank's change of stance from tightening to neutral and the fact that expectations for a cut or two is becoming the consensus and, by the day, is gaining currency. The chart below ...

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 ...