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Showing 21 - 30 of 48 results for "RBA Governor Glenn Stevens"

Australia according to Gov Glenn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
Thank you Australian Financial Review (AFR) and RBA Governor Glenn Stevens for your early Christmas present - the gift of sharing. In what has now become a "tradition," we learned from the AFR Gov Glenn's thoughts on: The international economy: "The ...

Australia's confidence recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2014
... because of the negative 0.5 percentage point contribution of private investment to overall GDP growth. RBA Governor Glenn Stevens might have to do more to awaken Australian businesses "animal spirits" and make them drink. But households are still spending ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2014
... on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia releases the minutes of its November board meeting while RBA governor Glenn Stevens is slated to deliver a speech to the Committee for Economic Development of Australia annual dinner in Melbourne. The Australian ...

Conditions and confidence collide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2014
... and well over its long-run average of plus 5. Well, that is clearly surprising, is it not? Crystal. RBA Governor Glenn Stevens A may have finally made the horse drink the water of cheap funding. But whoa boy, hold your horses! While NAB says that the ...

Chocolate biscuits and animal spirits

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
... a they try to discern the outlook for the Australian economy. 'Animal spirits' is, of course, what RBA Governor Glenn Stevens said was "... the thing that is most needed now" but "is something monetary policy can't directly cause." in his address to ...

RBA to business: release the animal in you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
... ailments, I retorted. My own tit-for-tat with the "medically-learned one" came to mind as I was reading RBA Governor Glenn Stevens' "Opening Statement to House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics" in Brisbane yesterday (and the Q&A transcripts) ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2012
... Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is due to release the minutes of its November board meeting, RBA governor Glenn Stevens is scheduled to deliver a speech at the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) Annual Dinner in Melbourne ...

Investor cash obsession worries wealth creators

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2012
... the next bull market run is just around the corner, historically low interest rates, and a call by RBA governor Glenn Stevens for investors to return to shares, investors' remain unwaveringly committed to cash. Following the GFC fund managers were understandably ...

Can't fix what's not broken, yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2012
... Sydney - or something like that (I can't find his actual quotation). The "they will" half point to RBA Governor Glenn Stevens' own assessment last month that growth is "somewhat below trend" and recent indicators showing a softening in the non-resource ...

Recycled scares

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2012
... China? Yes, we know. And the world economy? Yes, check. And how do we know, we know? Because of what RBA Governor Glenn Stevens said only yesterday - the day his Board decided to keep interest rates unchanged at 4.25%. "Recent information is consistent ...