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Chief economist update: RBA justified to cut rates or not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2019
... CBA: "The economy has been in a soft patch, but there are some green shoots emerging. The combination of monetary policy stimulus, forthcoming tax rebates and strong employment growth has contributed to the sharpest lift in the index since late last ...

Chief economist update: ECB to leave no policy tool unturned

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2019
... 'Twas here that Draghi hinted a change of stance from keeping steady policy settings for longer to providing additional stimulus, saying: "This applies to all instruments of our monetary policy stance. Further cuts in policy interest rates and mitigating ...

Chief economist update: BOE lets peers do the heavy lifting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2019
... An escalation of the trade war and a royal unruly Brexit could force its hand towards a rate cut instead. However, the stimulus derived from other major central banks' move towards lower interest rates (and fiscal relaxation in the case of China) ...

Chief economist update: Oil market slides from bull to bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2019
... market. Oil prices rallied nearly 50% from January to April this year on 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 ...

Chief economist update: The Budget surplus can wait

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2019
... But with mounting concerns over the Australian economy, households would rather spend the extra money - from the tax stimulus and the RBA rate cut - to shore up savings instead. Spending can wait! Consumer prices aren't rising fast enough anyway. ...

Property risks dip at Coalition win, APRA easing

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2019
... according to AMP Capital. "This will help consumption, but the negatives from falling house prices are likely to outweigh the stimulus households will receive from the Federal government," AMP Capital senior economist Diana Mousina said. "It has indicated ...

Chief economist update: China is back on track

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2019
... spring. China deserves to be congratulated. It's watered and fertilised the economy with enough monetary and fiscal stimulus that green shoots are beginning to appear. The People's Bank of China cut the reserve requirement ratio (RRR) - 0.5% ...

Chief economist update: China stitches it in time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2019
... December 2018 quarter (from 6.5% in the third quarter) and 6.6% for the full year 2018 from 6.9% in 2017. These policy stimulus measures came on top of the People's Bank of China's (PBOC) 1.0% reduction in the reserve requirement ratio (RRR) ...

Chief economist update: BOJ exit last year, BOJ easing this year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2019
... up to its 2% target. It's not surprising therefore that, when ask whether the BOJ had the necessary tools to boost stimulus to counter the pressure from a sharp yen rise, Governor Haruhiko Kuroda replied: "If (currency moves) are having an impact ...

Chief economist update: Good jobs bad jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2019
... global economic growth and global trade - that has already recently prompted expectations of a Fed pause, China announcing stimulus measures and the ECB capitulating into a "downside risk" to its outlook - won't help. And then, there's the upcoming ...