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Only way is up for global economy: Baur

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 9 JAN 2018
... and are looking ahead," Baur said. In the last decade or so people around the world were scared of relapse; the central banks were worried about deflation and Baur thinks those worries are going away. He said it's important to keep the distinction between ...

Expecting the expected

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2017
... expected and well-telegraphed 25 basis point rate hike. But while the Fed was CB of the week, other major world central banks also met and did what they signalled they'll be doing. And just as the Fed, they see 2017's stronger growth-low inflation dynamics ...

America is full

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2017
... workers with the required skills was a key factor restraining hiring plans". And this is the Fed's (and other major central banks) conundrum du' jour. Overall inflation in the economy can't really gain traction unless it receives a tailwind from stronger ...

ARCO Investment Management launches new strategy

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2017
... continue to underpin relatively expensive equity valuations, but this trade is now very long in the tooth. Offshore central banks seem keen to lift rates and tighten liquidity, which may well increase equity market volatility," ARCO co-founder and co-portfolio ...

Oil's gift to central bankers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 NOV 2017
... merely a knee-jerk reaction but if the oil price continues to head north, it could be just the thing that makes central banks' wishes come true. That wish of course, is for higher inflation. And it could for oil's demand fundamentals are strengthening ...

Changed RBA rate expectations?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2017
Financial markets got what they wished for from the world's three biggest central banks that met last week. The Bank of Japan (BOJ), the Fed and the Bank of England (BOE) all delivered as expected but not without help from the repeated and reiterated ...

Two holds and a raise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 OCT 2017
Three of the world's biggest central banks will meet this week. The Bank of Japan (BOJ) had already started their monetary policy deliberations yesterday and is set to conclude later today. This is expected to be a non-event with policy unchanged and ...

India's upside risks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2017
... August this year in order to cushion any adverse impact of the goods and services tax implemented on 1 July. Both central banks appear to have gotten the upper hand. The Indian central bank kept interest rates unchanged - repo rate at 6.0% and reverse ...

A matter of assumptions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2017
While most of the world's biggest central banks have embraced uber-transparency, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) appears to still be subscribing to "fedspeak". It's still keeping Australians in the dark about its next policy movement. In its September ...

Transparency to the max

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 SEP 2017
... complacence. Yes, there's none of that from Madam Yellen this time. What gives? I could only surmise that what gave are the central banks giving financial markets "almost" real time information about their policy leanings. Fedspeak had been replaced ...