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Chief economist update: The grass is paler on the China side

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2018
... Federal Open Market Committee met in June indicates that the labor market has continued to strengthen and that economic activity has been rising at a strong rate." It has every reason to because it's presiding over an economy that has growth an annualised ...

Chief economist update: The BOJ kills off specs (for now)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2018
... short- and long-term interest rates for an extended period of time, taking into account uncertainties regarding economic activity and prices including the effects of the consumption tax hike scheduled to take place in October 2019." With regard to long-term ...

Chief economist update: What goes around is starting to get around

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2018
... FOMC meeting. After an improved economic growth assessment in the May report, the June Beige Book reports that economic activity is expanding at a "moderate or modest" pace (from "moderate"). Yeah, big deal! But setting aside the semantics, the current ...

Chief economist update: The Goldilocks rate of interest

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2018
... too cold that it would continue stimulating growth (and lift inflation) and not too hot that it would cause economic activity to slow. Ho-hum. US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's prepared testimony before the US Congress (and even in the ...

Chief economist update: Minutes of concerns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018
... noted that such factors might temper the reliability of the slope of the yield curve as an indicator of future economic activity; however, several others expressed doubt about whether such factors were distorting the information content of the yield ...

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 ...