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Fed steady with a slight chance of a rate cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
... longer-run neutral interest rate". All well and good but where to now brown cow? "With regard to the outlook for monetary policy beyond this meeting... participants expressed that recent developments, including the volatility in financial markets and ...

Why the RBA has reason to cut rates in 2019

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2019
... cut rates. First, some global context. US Federal Reserve has hinted that it will be more dovish with regards to monetary policy from gradual and gentle rate hikes to using "...all of its tools to support the economy should that be appropriate to keep ...

Chief economist update: The clown in the White House

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 DEC 2018
... with his tariffs and war on trade against the world, The Fed could instead postpone its move towards normalising monetary policy.

Bonds reward equity investors seeking refuge

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 DEC 2018
... evolution of the economy into one indicator. The authors found that a change in the yield-curve slope, thanks to monetary policy easing measured by real-interest rates and its expected movement, is associated with an increase in the probability of a ...

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 ...