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Hawkish central banks? Not the BOJ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2017
The release of the minutes of the Fed's and the ECB's June meetings have brought back financial market trepidation - sparked by last week's hawkish comments from central bank heads of the US, the Eurozone and the UK - that the end of cheap money is ...

Data dictates immediate BOE action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2017
... policy accommodation won't be withdrawn so soon as markets speculated, evidenced by the recent re-assessment of central banks' hawkish comments before the RBA meeting. This re-think is none better highlighted than in the case of the Bank of England (BOE). ...

Not so happy EOFY for the All Ords

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 JUL 2017
... "talks" is any guide, normalisation would have to wait, or the very worst, it would be gradual and gentle. Recall that central banks are not only watching unemployment and inflation but also, to quote the Fed, "readings on financial and international ...

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 ...