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Chief economist update: BOJ expands Enhancement of Monetary Easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... respectively); it will continue purchases of ETFs and J-REITS; and maintain its "Quantitative and Qualitative Easing (QQE) with Yield Curve Control". This follows Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's announcement in early April "to carry out an unprecedentedly ...

Markets react as antiviral drug disappoints

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
... into a modesty risk-averse state. With markets falling, so did credit, he said. "US Treasury yields dropped, with the yield curve flattening and the 10 year yield trading at 0.59 per cent," Rodda said. Gold on the other hand, jumped more than 1%, he ...

Cashwerkz announces new chief executive

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2020
... Cashwerkz said. "He will leverage his vast experience to innovate product and technology services up the defensive yield curve and generate further revenue opportunities." Lechte worked as head of markets and director at Fiig Securities where he led ...

Chief economist update: It's the US consumer, stupid me

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2020
... economy and the Fed's response is turning out to be. I've been among those pencilling in a recession when the US yield curve inverted around the middle of last year and believed that the Fed would need to cut interest rates by at least another ...

Chief economist update: Stock rally heralds 2020 cheer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2019
... 24.0% this year to date. This is a sharp turnaround from last year's loss of 9.1% and five months before the US yield curve - the differential between the yield on US 10-year Treasuries and 3-month bills - started to invert. The same goes for emerging ...

Where to invest when a GFC looms

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2019
... additional gains simply because with bond yields so low they see no other alternative. "Even after witnessing an inverted yield curve one month and watching it return to normal the next, it appears that institutions are happy to play the hand they've ...

Chief economist update: Has the Fed conquered the yield curve?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2019
... Seems so easy to kill Bill and his team with this so "off the mark" prediction. Then again, a look back at the US yield curve gave me pause for thought that... Bill could be correct. For sure, the US yield curve - yield differential between 10-year US ...

Chief economist update: Santa Claus is coming to town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2019
... centred on the ill-effects of the trade war and underscored by fears of a looming US recession predicted by the inverted yield curve. The only explanation being that bad news is good news. The worse the global economic backdrop gets, the more central ...

Chief economist update: The yen to dictate if BOJ turns words into action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2019
... quantitative and qualitative easing (QQE) with negative interest rates (in January 2016) and expanded further to "with yield curve control" in September of the same year. Since then, it's let its mouth do the policy adjusting - or in the vernacular ...

Chief economist update: It's the money, stupid

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2019
... the 74% one-year average," according to Factset. What wasn't included in the list is the steepening in the US yield curve, so much so that it's no longer inverted, and with it, the probability of a US recession (a year from now) had dropped from ...