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Australian end of financial year sale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017
... analysis, click here.] Bloggeratis point their fingers at recent comments by the head honchos of the world's biggest central banks suggesting that the days of "abnormal" monetary policies are soon to be no more. The Fed's Janet Yellen didn't have to ...

Good oil, bad oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUN 2017
... territory, but only just - down 19.7% from February 2017's high of US$56.34. Should the decline in oil prices persist, central banks will have a problem (an inflation problem) - supporting the European Central Bank's (ECB) concern over the durability ...

Central Banks fail to disappoint

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 JUN 2017
... statements move markets. Not that anyone has to be reminded about this truism of course. The world's four major central banks - the Fed, the ECB, the BOJ and the BOE - and the RBA met over the past forthnight and not a single one failed market expectations. ...

Cloudy skies in the land of the rising sun

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2017
... a withdrawal from monetary stimulus" makes no sense. For sure, the BOJ, like the Fed and the ECB and most other central banks engaged in non-conventional policies, wants to get their monetary policy settings back to normal. But unlike the Fed, Japan's ...

The growth-inflation divide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2017
Bullish on growth, not so on inflation. This is the unifying message from three of the world's major central banks that met over the past 24 hours. As widely expected, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) kept monetary policy settings unchanged - discount rate at ...

RBA joins the bulls in central bank shop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2017
As expected, and following the lead from the three big central banks - BOJ, Fed, BOE - that met last week, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept the official cash rate unchanged at 1.5% while at the same time offering a positive outlook on the global ...

Asset manager profits under pressure

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2017
... economy. Second, the era of monetary policy instruments being the "policy tool of choice" has come to a close with central banks having diminishing impact on domestic economies. Finally, while share of profits in GDP has eclipsed share of wages for the ...

Trump's tweets and deeds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2017
The times they are a-changin'. Three major central banks - the Bank of Japan (BOJ), the US Federal Reserve (Fed) and the Bank of England (BOE) - one day after another last week but did many give a hoot? Sure, it was hardly news because all three kept ...

Don't follow consensus: Baur

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2017
... the signal for US rates to the next step upward will be the rising rates and a little more inflation in Japan and central banks," Baur explained. Baur warned that this is transition from economic mess to a better era is not going to occur without disruption. ...

Three for three

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2017
Three major world central banks met this week - all three kept monetary policy unchanged, all three expect better growth ahead. The Bank of Japan (BOJ) was first off the bat. The Japanese central bank decided to keep policy settings as they are at the ...