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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 ...

The BOJ's educated hope

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2017
... Bank of Japan's monetary policy decisions were as wide as their geographic locations, perhaps wider. While both central banks kept existing policies unchanged at their September meetings, the divergence in forward guidance widened even more after the ...

Fed does the thinkable

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 SEP 2017
... understands what the causes are" of persistently low inflation only increased her credibility (after, all most major world central banks are also dumbfounded by this modern day development). Chair Yellen added that: "What we need to figure out is whether ...

Future Fund expected to grow to $200bn

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 31 AUG 2017
... years is as interest rates are adjusted towards more normative levels. This has been flagged well in advance by central banks, and has been a long time coming, and we expect to take place over the coming years. "It will have to happen and when it does ...

Trump and Kim go ballistic

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2017
... further or sell downs would stop in the equity markets. But if ever that happens, we know that the Fed (and other central banks) would respond with counter-measures. That said, a nuclear war would introduce new dynamics for the financial markets. This ...

Powered by low-flation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 JUL 2017
... dollar. Okay, okay. These still all relate to economic growth past. Low inflation - that current bugbear of many world central banks - if it stays low, should continue to underpin consumer spending. The implicit price deflator for personal consumption ...