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APRA champions flexible financial technology regulation

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2022
... risk, to innovate and deliver better products or services which generate long-lasting economic benefits. Finding the Goldilocks point for regulation is what Byres said APRA strives for. To allow the digitisation of finance to generate maximum economic ...

Chief economist update: The Fed has hit neutral

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2019
... will run close to 2%." The US Federal Reserve has reached neutral - the "neutral interest rate" level, that is - the Goldilocks state of monetary policy where it is neither accommodative nor restrictive. If I remember correctly, the Fed's last published ...

Chief economist update: Finding neutral

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2018
... raise interest rates by only one to three times (at 25 bps each) before it hit neutral and it's job is done - the Goldilocks state of monetary, neither accommodative nor restrictive. An essay on "The Neutral Rate of Interest" by Dallas Fed president ...

Chief economist update: The Goldilocks rate of interest

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2018
The neutral interest rate is the Goldilocks level of the fed funds rate - not 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 ...

Budget for uncertainty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... started climbing from the get go yesterday. Yup, I expected as much given the good news on or before "Mother's Day" - goldilocks US employment report, clam in the bond markets, China's rate cut, among others -- that sent American and European equity ...

Dear mom, all's good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2015
... at the 7 May elections. Good news from the "mother of all eco stats" - the US non-farm payrolls report - it was a "goldilocks" one, not too hot, not too cold. Employment increased by 223K in April and the unemployment rate dipped to 5.4% from 5.5% in ...

Goldilocks is back in town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014
... sparked by the downing of Malaysian Airlines MH17 on 17 July. But we'll let sleeping dogs lie for now Toto. For now, Goldilocks is back in town in Uncle Sam country. Data out last night show good news on the housing front. Overall US housing starts soared ...

The music's still playing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2014
... "good news is good, bad news is also good" tome that was the rationale du jour back in the days of about a year ago. Goldilocks is back. The US economy is not too hot, not too cold. The S&P/Case-Shiller 20 US cities index of property values increased ...

The good, the good and the dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2013
... that the investment community has finally learnt to live with that prospect. Yes Virgie my lovely, we're back to that Goldilocks rationale for the stock market...perhaps, even better now. US equities are advancing at the same time that yields on 10-year ...

Is it safe?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2013
... the next day's or the following week's trade, I still stand behind my view that equity investors are in the land of Goldilocks' land...and visits by papa bear, mama bear and baby bear should be seen as opportunities to add to holdings. This is because ...