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Chief economist update: Japan's elusive virtuous cycle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2021
... this day inflation - headline and core - has gone nowhere near the BOJ's 2% target despite introducing QQE with Yield Curve Control and Negative Interest Rates in 2016. But I digress. While the BOJ upgraded its GDP growth forecasts in its April 2021 ...

Chief economist update: BOJ has no plans to ease easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2021
... at around 0%. It also pledged that it "will continue with Quantitative and Qualitative Monetary Easing (QQE) with Yield Curve Control, aiming to achieve the price stability target of 2%, as long as it is necessary for maintaining that target in a stable ...

Chief economist update: Fed fights back bond bears

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2021
... intention of pushing up (10-year bond yields) above its target of around 0%... "It's important now to keep the entire yield curve stably low as the economy suffers the damage from COVID-19". So too has the Bank of Korea (BOK). In its latest statement ...

NSW budget boosts TCorp loans

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2020
... manager Gavin Sinnott said TCorp's primary source of funding uses a benchmark-bond program that issues across the yield curve using a combination of reverse enquiry, tender and syndication. "One of our key strategic goals is to lengthen the state's debt ...

Chief economist update: Lowe taking interest rates lower

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2020
... open economy in an interconnected world, so what happens abroad has an impact here on both our exchange rate and our yield curve. In the past, the interest differentials provided a reasonable gauge to the relative stance of monetary policy across countries. ...

Morningstar upgrades four, downgrades 10

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020
Following a qualitative review of 69 Australian fixed-interest strategies, ratings house Morningstar has made 15 changes; including upgrades, downgrades, and dropping its coverage of one strategy. The changes are attributable to Morningstar's revised ...

Gold rally continues to hit new highs

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2020
... gold's latest rally looks "stretched" and that a correction may be due. "Speculation surrounding the prospects of yield curve control may just provide a final push for spot gold up to US$2000, before capitulation and consolidation," Creagh said. She ...

Chief economist update: The All Ords' ups, downs and ups

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2020
... good: The US and China have reached a trade deal; Brexit's settled; the Fed succeeded in turning the US inverted yield curve - which presaged a recession - after it cut the fed funds rate three times (in July, September and October) while at the ...

US GDP to contract 6.5%: Fed

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2020
... continue to review the asset purchase forward guidance and that they have been studying the international evidence on yield curve control. Stephen Miller, investment strategy consultant at GSFM, said the Fed's statement assuages any nascent fears that ...

Chief economist update: Don't fight the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2020
... supported by interest rates that remain at their current level near zero." Powell also addressed recent speculations of yield curve control. "The measures we discussed included explicit forms of forward guidance and asset purchases; we used these tools ...