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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 ...

Chief economist update: Plenty of oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2019
... oil prices like a hole in the head just now. They'll be a tax on consumption and production - the very ones central banks around the world are desperately trying to bump up. Trump's soothing words "we'd certainly like to avoid" a war, along ...

Chief economist update: Fed future move depends on dollar direction

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2019
... year. The bottom line is the Fed's future move depends on how the US dollar responds and how its counterpart central banks respond to the Fed's move and the greenback's weakness.

Chief economist update: Whatever it takes, however long it takes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2019
... war on trade) not his neighbours that's generating this downdraft and counter-cyclical policy responses from central banks around the world... and/or as long as Trump remains in the White House.

Chief economist update: Germany in the budget's shadow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2019
... Global Financial Crisis of 2008 gave birth to "non-conventional monetary policy" - where many developed country central banks lowered interest rates to zero/negative and/or engaged in quantitative easing. While these prevented the "Great Recession" from ...

Chief economist update: Economy slows to decade low but still tops the pops

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2019
... environment but current indications are that we have seen the low in this economic cycle. More so, given that major central banks and governments are now hard at work enacting and/or preparing counter-cyclical policy responses. We'll be right mat ...

Chief economist update: What price Australian budget surplus?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2019
... yields (cost of government borrowing) this low, it's time for fiscal policy to lend a helping hand" because central banks are running out of ammunition. No less than Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Philip Lowe backs up Financial Standard 's ...

Chief economist update: Trump should read Frank

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2019
Houston, we have a problem - a gigantic one! Talk about spoiling everybody's weekend. Wall Street fell sharply at the close of last week's trading. Was it due to disappointment over US Fed chair Jerome Powell's much-anticipated words at ...