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JPMorgan Chase to pay bribery fines

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2016
JPMorgan Chase & Co has agreed to pay more than US$130 million to settle charges brought against it by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) after winning business from clients and corruptly influencing government officials in Asia Pacific by ...

Trump is heaven's gift to central banks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2016
... president Draghi had for a long time been asking governments for support with increased spending and looser tax policies. BOE governor Carney exhorted governments to implement fiscal and structural policies to boost growth. So did, RBA governor Lowe ...

CPI says RBA no go on Melbourne Cup Day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 OCT 2016
... Year. This may very well be but to use Janet Yellen's words, it depends on the incoming data. In his first speech as RBA governor, Philip Lowe nominated three factors - excess capacity, decline in commodity prices and feeling of reduced pricing power ...

Senior staff changes at RBA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2016
... The Reserve Bank of Australia is restructuring, seeing a number of internal moves and one retirement. Current assistant governor, economic, Christopher Kent has been appointed assistant governor, financial markets; a role made vacant following Guy Debelle's ...

Where's the Brexit-induced recession?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2016

The twenty-first night of September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2016
... JGB purchases at ¥80 trillion annually). And then there's the BOJ's conflicting statements on negative interest rates. Governor Haruhiko Kuroda insists that there is still room for interest rates to go even more negative, the 'Wall Street Journal' reports ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2016
... United Kingdom (2.2%) and Japan (0.6%). The details of the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) report show that the RBA governor's constant nagging may have finally gotten through to the government (because monetary policy can only do so much) with ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2016
... 11 August Board meeting. It last lowered interest rates from 2.5% to 2.25% back in March this year. According to RBNZ Governor Graeme Wheeler: "Weak global conditions and low interest rates relative to New Zealand are placing upward pressure on the New ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2016
... further weakness, particularly in business investment (due to Brexit uncertainty), have prompted Bank of England (BOE) governor Mark Carney to ponder some form of policy stimulus when the BOE next meets this month (14 July).

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2016
... already had painful experience of this". BOE on Brexit In a statement after the Brexit result, Bank of England (BOE) governor Mark Carney said that, "The Bank of England cannot (and should not) stand in the way of these necessary adjustments. But we ...