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Chief economist update: Cash is King

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2019
... to reduced opportunities to grow export orders." Sure, sure, as one FOMC member (I couldn't remember who, or was it Janet Yellen?) once blurted out, we decide on domestic monetary policy based on our domestic conditions and outlook, not on global ...

Chief economist update: Another year over, a new one begins

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 JAN 2019
... None other than Fed chairman Jerome Powell understands this. In a joint interview with his predecessors - Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen - at the American Economic Association's annual meeting in Atlanta on 4 January 2019, Powell declared: "With the ...

Technical Services Forum looks at tax and aged care

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2018
... exemption were to be used in the future. The next session by BT Advice Capability & Conduct senior technical specialist Janet Manzanero-Caruana looked at aged care case studies involving couples. One of the challenges she presented to the audience was ...

Chief economist update: Dot tales

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2018
... week and that China is already considering slapping higher tariffs on US agricultural exports. Once again, ex-Fed chief Janet Yellen's caution come to mind: "As I have noted on previous occasions, participants' projections for the federal funds rate ...

Placer Property launches new fund

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2018
Specialist manager Placer Property is launching its third retail property fund and has appointed two new directors. The 333 Exhibition Street Property Fund is investing a commercial office building in Melbourne which is leased to the University of Melbourne. ...

Chief economist update: Plotting the dots

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2018
... to know where the men and women of the FOMC are taking the fed funds rate going forward, innit? But as former Fed chief, Janet Yellen, oft-repeatedly warned: "As I have noted on previous occasions, participants' projections for the federal funds rate ...

Chief economist update: New Fed chief, same policy direction (but more transparent)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2018
... anything new? Same here. For Powell's statement hardly differed from the statement issued after its 30-31 January FOMC meeting (Janet Yellen's last), including: "The committee views the near-term risks to the economic outlook as roughly balanced but ...

Chief economist update: The Fed's force is with us

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2018
... on Wall Street would continue, "unless acted upon by a force." Needless to say, that force is the Fed. It might have been Janet Yellen's Fed that, month after month, qualified the "timing and size of future adjustments to the target range for the federal ...

Powell power

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 NOV 2017
There wasn't really anything earth-shattering in US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's testimony before the Joint Economic Committee of the US Congress overnight where she discussed 'The Current Economic Outlook and Monetary Policy'. Growth is gaining ...

Changed RBA rate expectations?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2017
... President Donald Trump's nomination of Jerome Powell. If (when?) approved by the US Senate Powell will replace sitting Fed Chair Janet Yellen on 3 February next year, which is expected to provide continuity to the Fed's current softly, softly approach ...