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Chief economist update: RBA still in denial

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2019
... lowered to 2.25% on February 2015. The RBA don't meet in January but the statement issued by then RBA Governor Glenn Stevens on December 2014 talked about moderate pace in the global economy, accommodative global financial conditions and "In Australia ...

Chief economist update: Australia's low(er)-flation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2018
Will the next move in the official cash rate, as Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Governor Philip Lowe put it, likely "be up, rather than down"? To answer this, we have to look at the RBA's mandate of full employment and meeting an "agreed medium-term ...

Chief economist update: Inflation genie still inside the box

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2018
The stats are out and they reveal that Australia's inflation genie is still inside the box. The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) consumer price index report showed headline inflation accelerated to 2.1% in the year to the June quarter ...

Chief economist update: A pretty picture of the labour market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2018
"I see trees of green, red roses too I see them bloom for me and you And I think to myself, what a wonderful world." I apologise for mixing my song lyrics but, you're as cold as ice (Foreigners) if yesterday's report on Australia's labour ...

Super fund chair appointed to NSW Generations Fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2018
... five-person advisory board. The NSW government has also tapped in former Reserve Bank of Australia Governor (2006-2016) Glenn Stevens to chair the NGF advisory board. Stevens is currently a director at Macquarie Group and Lowy Institute. Lisa McIntyre ...

Chief economist update: A prelude to an RBA cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2018
... lowered to 2.25% on February 2015. The RBA doesn't meet in January but the statement issued by then RBA Governor Glenn Stevens on December 2014 talked about moderate pace in the global economy, accommodative global financial conditions and "In Australia ...

Global online trading firm rolls out bitcoin derivatives in Australia

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2018
... itself. GAIN also said that if regulation permits, investors can trade bitcoin on a margin. GAIN chief executive Glenn Stevens explained: "For those who want exposure to bitcoin, trading the cryptocurrency as a derivative with a regulated brokerage firm ...

Capex brings cheer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2017
... 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. His frustration ...

Ex-RBA Governor joins Macquarie

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2017
... 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. Stevens was ...

Boring is good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2017
... now, Philip Lowe celebrates his first anniversary as Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) - succeeding Glenn Stevens on 18 September 2016. One thing that could be said about his first year stint as head honcho of the Australian central bank ...