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Chief economist update: RBA rate cut outlook

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2019
... pressure on growth and inflation - the RBA will have no option but to cut rates in response to policy actions by other central banks. And cut it would again.

RBA downplays likelihood of further rate cuts

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2019
... and a step closer to the RBA's full employment aim of 4.5%. Speaking in Washington to the IMF, Lowe said that the central banks rate cuts and government tax cuts have been effective at supporting the domestic economy. "The economy has been through a ...

Chief economist update: Brexit uncertainty is not all that bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2019
... uncertainty over Brexit that is working in the Bank of England's (BOE) favour. It's one of the very few central banks that's forward guiding monetary policy towards higher interest rates (albeit "gradual and limited") at a time when the US ...

Chief economist update: When QE is not QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 OCT 2019
... in early September 2019." Quantitative easing is that you? Broadly defined by Investopedia, QE is when the Fed (central banks) increases the money supply by "purchasing assets with newly created bank reserves in order to provide banks with more liquidity". ...

Chief economist update: Japan tightens fiscal policy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2019
Just as the clamour among central banks for fiscal policy aid continue to grow - recently supported by prescriptions from international institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank (WB), the World Trade Organisation (WTO) ...

Future Fund chief most influential public investor

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2019
... Institute (SWFI) ranks executives at world's largest sovereign funds, pensions, endowments, foundations and central banks. Now in its seventh year, the list looks at innovation, funding, environmental circumstances, returns, unique programs, and ...

Chief economist update: When monetary and fiscal policies don't meet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2019
... Australia (RBA) governor Philip Lowe. A report by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) - the central bank of central banks - Committee on the Global Financial System, chaired by Lowe, provides the clearest indication yet of the RBA governor's ...

Chief economist update: Zero here we go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2019
... macro-economic fundamentals, it finds itself doing even more stitching. If only the RBA applied the opposite of what central banks around the world were proclaiming, "We need to raise interest rates now to avoid lifting rates by more in the future" during ...

Chief economist update: The greatest central banker of modern times

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2019
... that's so easy to say but difficult to apply - more so if you're the head of one of the world's biggest central banks, presiding over a fast slowing economy and running out of time. Such is departing ECB president Mario Draghi's predicament. ...

Chief economist update: Time for a Keynes comeback

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2019
... down... Help me get my feet back on the ground Won't you please, please help me." -- The Beatles Most major world central banks have already cut interest rates (more than once) and/or restarted QE, or promised to maintain ultra-loose monetary policy ...