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Royal Commission begins in February

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2018
... hearing is Level 6, 11 Exhibition Street, Melbourne and will commence at 10am. The Royal Commission was established by Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove on 14 December 2017, with former High Court judge Kenneth Hayne named as Royal Commissioner. At ...

Chief economist update: ECB sees low rates for longer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 JAN 2018
Echoing BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda's quick push back on taper speculations, Deutsche Bundesbank president and ECB governing council member Jens Weidmann used his speech at the Ludwig-Erhard Summit in Bavaria to do the same. Like Kuroda, Weidmann's ...

Federal Government names Royal Commission lead

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2017
... Scott Morrison, announced the Government will recommend Kenneth Madison Hayne be appointed Royal Commissioner by the Governor General. Hayne was a Justice of the High Court of Australia from 1997 to 2015, having previously served on the Victorian Court ...

Capex brings cheer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2017
... certainly can't. I've allowed the horse to come to the water with cheap funding. I can't make it drink." This was then RBA governor Glenn Stevens' statement to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics in his August 2014 testimony. ...

Japan on reverse cycle?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 NOV 2017
... Minister Shinzo Abe won by landslide at the 22 October 2017 general elections, ensuring that sitting Bank of Japan (BOJ) governor Haruhiko Kuroda will be re-appointed when his term expires on 8 April 2018. All up, these means the continuity of Abenomics ...

Less liquidity to lessen risk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2017
... priority this year is "financial security" because it is a vital component of national security. A statement echoed by PBOC governor Zhou Xiaochuan when he warned that China could face a "Minsky moment". Zhou cautioned about the country's "very high" ...

Two holds and a raise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 OCT 2017
... This was assured by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's landslide victory in the recent elections that, in turn, guaranteed BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda's continuity at the helm of the central bank. The Fed holds its Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting ...

Surefire Melbourne Cup bet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2017
... household spending isn't strong enough to generate demand-pull inflation. Sweeter still (again not for the RBA) is deputy governor Guy Debelle's talk on "Uncertainty" at the 7th Warren Hogan Memorial Lecture in Sydney last week. This is where he told ...

Ex-RBA Governor joins Macquarie

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2017
Macquarie Group and Macquarie Bank will welcome a former Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia to its boards next month. Glenn Stevens, who served as Governor between 2006 and 2016, will join both boards on November 1 as an independent director. ...

Go ahead BOE, make my day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2017
... by 2% to ¥147.93 over the same period; and down by 1.4% to €1.1205. The fade out must have been what prompted BOE Governor Mark Carney to reiterate this "forward guidance" in his testimony before the UK Parliamentary Treasury Select Committee overnight. ...