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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 ...

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.