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Chief economist update: Rush hour is over for the BOE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2018
... BOE's target rate of 2% in April, the third straight month of deceleration from January's 2.7% rate. With economic activity and inflation in the UK slowing, the BOE would no longer be in a hurry to raise interest rates. Certainly not at its Monetary ...

Chief economist update: Fed will go hiking in June

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAY 2018
... received since the Committee met in March indicated that the labor market had continued to strengthen and that economic activity had been rising at a moderate rate. Job gains had been strong, on average, in recent months, and the unemployment rate had ...

Chief economist update: Fed's on target, BOJ takes out target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2018
... moderate expansion activity in its domestic economy. Just like the Fed, it deleted something from the "Outlook for Economic Activity and Prices" report that accompanied its decision. The sentence, "The timing of the year-on-year rate of change in the ...

Chief economist update: A$ falls to the occasion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2018
... noted in its statement that: "An appreciating exchange rate would be expected to result in a slower pick-up in economic activity and inflation than currently forecast." Ipso facto, the opposite is true: A de-preciating exchange rate would be expected ...

Chief economist update: Australian workers, don't expect a pay rise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018
... investments. This is because jobs growth and the rate of unemployment give guidance on the state of domestic economic activity and insight into the future direction of fiscal and monetary policy. By tracking the jobs data, investors can sense the degree ...

Chief economist update: The colour of Beige

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2018
... bps to 1.75% just last month. The Beige Book's general assessment of economic conditions remained unchanged: "Economic activity continued to expand at a modest to moderate pace across the 12 Federal Reserve Districts in March and early April. Outlooks ...

Chief economist update: Back to the shops

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2018
... the minutes of the 20-21 March FOMC meeting: "A number of participants indicated that the stronger outlook for economic activity, along with their increased confidence that inflation would return to 2% over the medium term, implied that the appropriate ...

Chief economist update: Inflation is heading Fed's way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018
... more aggressive path towards normalisation. "A number of participants indicated that the stronger outlook for economic activity, along with their increased confidence that inflation would return to 2% over the medium term, implied that the appropriate ...

Chief economist update: No target sign on India's back

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 APR 2018
... over the growth outlook: "Turning to the growth outlook, several factors are expected to accelerate the pace of economic activity in 2018-19. First, there are now clearer signs of revival in investment activity as reflected in the sustained expansion ...

Chief economist update: The trend is not our friend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2018
... higher wages that would encourage increased consumer spending - that which accounts for around two-thirds of economic activity. However, growth in wages remains sluggish. The wage price index slightly inched up to 2.1% in the year to the December 2017 ...