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PIMCO partners with data and analytics platform

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2018
... implied by above-trend global growth and "gently rising inflation." Exacerbating this is the wider global trend of central banks tightening monetary policy.

Volatility divides investors: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2018
... the unprecedented process of unwinding of quantitative easing, the report said. Asset purchase plans instituted by central banks to lower rates and increase the money supply during the Global Financial Crisis have been in place for the better part of ...

Future Fund continues progress yet challenges lay ahead

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2018
... said. "Looking forward, the board remains alert to a range of uncertainties and risks, including the response of central banks to the changing economic environment, international political tensions and the potential for shocks to investment markets." ...

PIMCO sells Aussie banks as correction looms

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2018
... implied by above-trend global growth and "gently rising inflation." Exacerbating this is the wider global trend of central banks tightening monetary policy. "While fundamentals and technicals keep us invested, our assessment of valuations argues for ...

Chief economist update: The risks just got real

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2018
An influx of economic data and surveys are set for release this week. The central banks of Australia, Canada, the Eurozone and Japan are also scheduled to meet. Don't bother with any of them. Whatever the indicators indicate and the central banks decide ...

Chief economist update: New Fed chief, same policy direction (but more transparent)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2018
... not sure you realise that what you heard is not what I meant." Times have changed since 'the Maestro's' reign. The central banks of today are bending over backwards to signal the change in stances in monetary policy to the point of transmitting their ...

Chief economist update: Three minutes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2018
Three out of three central banks kept monetary settings unchanged at their most recent meetings - what's more important is where the central banks think we are and where they plan to take us. The minutes of the meetings of the Reserve Bank of Australia ...

Scared of inflation? Try deflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2018
... moving up towards its target. Never mind what I scribbled but the insights, outlook and decisions made by four world central banks that met last week underscore that the world is in a better place, all against the backdrop of the turmoil on Wall Street. ...

Chief economist update: RBA to lift rates after 2018

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2018
... a-shopping. This also suggests market participants are getting their predictions closer to correct. How can they not when central banks are signalling their intents in real time and in some cases, signalling the change in their signal about their intent? ...

Chief economist update: Wall Street wails on inflation indications

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2018
"Be careful what you wish for." It's a well-known truism in the current economic cycle that the world's major central banks (the BOE excluded) have been wishin' and hopin' and thinkin' and prayin' for inflation to climb to their target rates. It appears ...