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Chief economist update: BOE waiting on Brexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2018
... Policy Council (MPC) unanimously voted to raise the Bank Rate by 25 bps to 0.75% on the 2nd of August, BOE governor Mark Carney was quoted as saying, "The mistake is to always wait, wait, wait until you have perfect certainty" before acting on policy. ...

The BOE's got no problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2018
... Monetary Policy Council (MPC) unanimously voted to raise the Bank Rate by 25 bps to 0.75% on August 2, BOE governor Mark Carney was quoted as saying: "The mistake is to always wait, wait, wait until you have perfect certainty," before acting on policy. ...

Chief economist update: Do nothing RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2018
If all goes according to expectations, today's Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Board meeting will mark one-month and two years (25 months) that the country's cash rate had been stuck at a record low 1.50%, and the longest stretch of unchanged ...

Chief economist update: Heaven can wait but the BOE couldn't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018
"The mistake is to always wait, wait, wait until you have perfect certainty." - Bank of England Governor Mark Carney The Bank of England (BOE) finally went ahead and did it. It lifted the Bank Rate by 25 basis points to 0.75% at the conclusion of its ...

Chief economist update: Three ayes for a rate hike

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018
... ECB and BOJ - the Bank of England (BOE) did not disappoint market expectations (unlike in its May meeting where Governor Carney hinted at a rate hike months before, but didn't). "At its meeting ending on 20 June 2018, the MPC voted by a majority ...

Chief economist update: Rush hour is over for the BOE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2018
... fourth straight quarter of decelerating year-on-year expansions. In his post-meeting press conference, BOE Governor Mark Carney stressed that the slowdown is due to adverse weather in February and March and that underlying growth is much more resilient ...

Chief economist update: BOE fails market expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2018
... slowest rate of growth since the June 2012 quarter. Then again, in his post-meeting press conference, BOE Governor Mark Carney stressed that the slowdown is due to adverse weather in February and March and that UK's underlying growth is much more resilient ...

Chief economist update: Trump trumps Brexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2018
... 2017 (up from US$1 billion in the previous year). UK Prime Minister Theresa May and Bank of England (BOE) governor Mark Carney could at least focus on the domestic economy. While UK GDP growth slowed to annual rate of 1.4% in the year to the December ...

Outsourcing driving advice client engagement

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018
... costs and are dedicating more time to clients. This is according to Virtual Business Partners (VBR) chief executive David Carney, who said advice firms can do more to outsource or streamline mundane workloads not only to reduce costs, but ultimately ...

Climate change a real risk for investors: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2018
... Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), established by the Financial Stability Board, chaired by Bank of England Governor Mark Carney, to address systemic financial risk posed by climate change, the report said. Deutsche Asset Management released ...