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Liquidnet acquires fintech

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2019
... movements. It currently provides predictive analytics on 3000 publicly traded companies listed in the US and 15 central banks including the Reserve Bank of Australia, Bank of Japan, US Fed Reserve and European "Prattle is yet another powerful tool for ...

Chief economist update: Oil market slides from bull to bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2019
... the back of the Fed's pause; China's stimulus measures and expectations of continued easy policy by the central banks of the Eurozone and Japan, among others; and (at the time) hopes for a US-China trade deal, improving sentiment over the global ...

Chief economist update: The rate cut Australia has to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2019
Reserve Bank of Australia governor Philip Lowe is set to be remembered in history as the man who took Australia's official cash rate from a historic low of 1.5% - set under Glen Stevens one month before he stepped down as RBA head honcho in September ...

Chief economist update: ECB exit proves premature

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2019
... Subdued bank profitability prospects related to slow progress in addressing structural issues. Like other major world central banks, the ECB wants to bring back monetary policy towards normality. But perhaps, it was a little too soon when it ended its ...

Chief economist update: The greatest challenge of our time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2019
... Powell warned below-target inflation is "one of the major challenges of our time", saying: "That's something that central banks face all over the world." True that. The chart below shows latest core CPI inflation measures among the world's major ...

Chief economist update: Glass half-full or US recession on the way?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2019
... he became UK Prime Minister 1940-1945) but Churchill's words now resonate in the conundrum most major world central banks face - low (even multi-decade low) unemployment rates and low (even easing) inflation. For all intents and purposes, the Fed's ...

Chief economist update: Currency manipulators beware

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2019
... reflect relative macro-economic fundamentals - a characteristic (and design) of their equilibrium-restoring function. Central banks in slowing economies are compelled to lower interest rates; directly or indirectly impacting the value of their respective ...

Chief economist update: Policy of patience

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2019
... present, and the unemployment rate higher. International developments? The U-turn towards easier policy among world central banks is starting to regenerate global growth momentum. Not to mention, the peace dividend that a US-China trade deal brings. ...

Chief economist update: Inflation is dead

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 APR 2019
... take, back in the grim old days from the 1950s to the late 1980s are no more. Back then the monetarists ruled and central banks were able to tame inflation, leading to what we now see as the great moderation of the 1990s. This has lingered and was going ...

Chief economist update: Lock in two RBA rate cuts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2019
... now at 5%, although wages growth have only picked up from 2.1% (then) to 2.3% (Dec 2018 quarter latest available). Central banks around the world have used the mantra, "we need to raise interest rates now to avoid lifting rates by more in the future". ...