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Chief economist update: A prelude to a rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2018
... Sydney yesterday, Debelle said: "The Reserve Bank has repeatedly said that our expectation is that the next move in monetary policy is more likely up than down, though it is some way off. But should that turn out not to be the case, there is still scope ...

Chief economist update: RBA more likely to cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2018
... domestic economies when it held its policy meeting last month (6 November) before concluding that "...the stance of monetary policy unchanged at this meeting would be consistent with sustainable growth in the economy and achieving the inflation target ...

Chief economist update: Is TLTRO III coming?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2018
... stimulate bank lending to the real economy. The TLTROs, therefore, reinforce the ECB's current accommodative monetary policy stance and strengthen the transmission of monetary policy by further incentivising bank lending to the real economy." The ...

Chief economist update: Predictions allude to frozen RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2018
... RBA's economic outlook puts this at 3.0% by end-2020 -- due to slower growth in exports of resources." (November 6 monetary policy statement). The RBA is also more optimistic with regards to the unemployment rate: 5.0% this year and 4.75% in 2019 ...

Melbourne boutique hires deputy CIO

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2018
... Thailand where she pioneered a balance sheet risk management approach linked to how a central bank conducts its monetary policy and the impact to its balance sheet, JCB said in a statement. Samranvedhya said she was tremendously excited to join the boutique. ...

Chief economist update: Thanks for nothing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2018
... markets, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. But the greatest threat of them all is the Fed and its effort to bring monetary policy back to normality, that is, reducing system-wide liquidity. We only have to look back at the GFC and Grexit and Japanese deflation ...

Chief economist update: Slowing in sync

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... up with the metaphor, flattening the tyres of global growth. There's the Fed's determination to return monetary policy back to normality - that's sending emerging markets (currencies and equity markets) in a tailspin - there's the tussle ...

Chief economist update: BOE waiting on Brexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2018
When the Bank of England's (BOE) Monetary Policy Council (MPC) unanimously voted to raise the Bank Rate by 25 bps to 0.75% on the 2nd of August, BOE governor Mark Carney was quoted as saying, "The mistake is to always wait, wait, wait until you ...

Chief economist update: Eurozone growth slowing fast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2018
... coming months." Fortunately for the ECB, it placed a caveat on its forward guidance when it issued its October monetary policy statement. "Regarding non-standard monetary policy measures, the Governing Council will continue to make net purchases under ...

Chief economist update: BOJ on a steady

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2018
The Bank of Japan (BOJ) starts its two-day monetary policy meeting today and it's not about to give financial markets a Halloween spook when it announces the policy board's decision tomorrow. Monetary policy settings will remain unchanged - ...