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Chief economist update: RBA not risking market disappointment

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2019
... September meeting. Operative phrase: "as widely expected". You, I and Irene can wax pedantic about some changes in RBA governor Philip Lowe's September statement and that of the previous month, but at the end of the day 'twas same old, same old. ...

Chief economist update: Super Mario's last hurrah

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2019
... central bank president Knot, thinks the outlook is not weak enough to justify QE but is open to a rate cut; Austrian governor Nowotny's against buying equities for stimulus; and, Bundesbank president Weidmann announced his opposition to a big stimulus ...

Chief economist update: What price Australian budget surplus?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2019
... 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 earlier prescriptions. As printed in the Australian Financial Review on ...

Chief economist update: Global easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2019
... the Australian House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics on August 9, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor Philip Lowe practically gave his nod of approval in Financial Standard 's clear as the crystal ball's prediction (made ...

RBA in no rush to lift cash rate

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2019
Investors should brace for the 1% cash rate environment to continue, after Reserve Bank of Australia governor Philip Lowe turned the spotlight to the stubborn inflation rates at a Sydney lunch yesterday. Speaking at Anika Foundation Luncheon, Lowe said ...

APRA forced to overhaul culture, capabilities

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2019
... panel, which comprises AGL Energy non-executive director Diane Smith-Gander and former Reserve Bank of New Zealand acting governor Grant Spencer. APRA appears to operate in a culture that is "unwilling to challenge itself, slow to respond and tentative ...

Chief economist update: Hard target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2019
... community on June 4 - the night after the afternoon when the central bank announced its first rate cut since August 2016 - governor Philip Lowe declared 4.5% is the unemployment rate at which wages start to lift and feed into inflation. Latest data show ...

Chief economist update: BOE flips tightening bias to easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2019
... tightening bias. In his speech at the Local Government Association Annual Conference and Exhibition in Bournemouth, BOE governor Mark Carney declared that: "For now, a global trade war and a No Deal Brexit remain growing possibilities not certainties. ...

Chief economist update: The back-to-back rate cuts Australia has to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2019
... two months' time, the official cash rate has dropped from a record low of 1.5% to a deeper low of just 1%. I guess governor Lowe didn't receive the memo from Bank of International Settlements (BIS) - the world's central bank of central banks ...

Chief economist update: RBA justified to cut rates or not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2019
... no question about it, for sure and for certain the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will cut interest rates again. RBA governor Philip Lowe told us so when he addressed the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) event in Adelaide on June ...