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Chief economist update: RBA more likely to cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2018
... second longest stretch of steady interest rates is the 18-month period between August 2013 and January 2015 with the cash rate frozen at 2.5% before being lowered to 2.25% on February 2015. 'Twas the same when the RBA held interest rates unchanged ...

Chief economist update: Thanks for nothing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2018
... earn 2.25% (currently) than in euros (0% repo rate) or the yen (-0.1% discount rate) or even Australia (1.5% official cash rate). However, the Fed's one-eyed focus on growth is increasing the risk of a policy mistake. More so, because gangbusting ...

Chief economist update: The Middle Kingdom's middling growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2018
... many odds on the various horses running in the Cup but there's only one on the RBA: It'll keep the official cash rate unchanged at 1.5% - as it was last month, last year and going all the way back to the first Tuesday of August 2016 when it dropped ...

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 ...

Investors unfazed by market volatility: Spot poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2018
Recent share market turbulence is not spooking investors as the majority are adamant about holding onto their equity portfolio, Financial Standard's spot poll shows. Most readers (61%) said volatility raging in global and local share markets won't ...

Chief economist update: Keep one eye open on the housing market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2018
... the Australian central bank at the conclusion of its board meeting. The RBA did not disappoint. It kept the official cash rate unchanged at the record low 1.5% - where it had been for 27 months (and counting) - as well as making only minor tweaks to ...

RBNZ on ice into 2020

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
... take the fed funds rate up to 3.4% by then. On the other hand, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) kept the official cash rate unchanged at 1.75% -- where it had been since November 2016. Not only that, RBNZ governor Adrian Orr said in his statement ...

Firetrail to launch $305m IPO

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2018
... predominately comprised of long and short positions in Australian listed securities, aiming to deliver above the RBA cash rate in positive risk adjusted returns despite the performance of underlying securities. Firetrail's Absolute Return has delivered ...

AMP, CBA respond to record class action bid

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2018
... bank where members of the fund's cash option received interest rates as low as 1.25% per year - lower than the RBA cash rate and rates offered on regular term deposits. Likewise, the Royal Commission revealed members within AMP's cash option ...

Future Fund delivers 9.3%, increases risk moderately

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2018
... rise. Several smaller banks, including Bendigo and Adelaide Bank, have already raised rates even though the RBA has the cash rate on hold, citing increased funding costs. Speaking of Royal Commission's impact, Costello said banks will have to focus more ...