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Down, down business conditions are down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2017
... Economics team last month to which I added: This certainly doesn't fit with the current record low level of the official cash rate (1.5%) nor the current neutral stance in RBA monetary policy. The last time business conditions were nearly this lovely ...

A case for faster wages growth (or not)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2017
... market expectations when it conducted its last board meeting for 2017. The Australian central bank kept the official cash rate where it had been since August 2016, at a record low 1.5%. The December statement on monetary was much like in the other months ...

Grant Samuel wins RE mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2017
... reduce from 10.25% to 10%, GST included. The hurdle rate necessary to earn a performance fee will change from the RBA Cash Rate to the Australian Government 10YR Bond Yield + 3.5% per annum. The Munro Global Growth Fund invests in international listed ...

Capex brings cheer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2017
... Committee on Economics in his August 2014 testimony. His frustration was understandable for after taking the official cash rate from 4.75% in 2011 to 2.5% in 2014 in a succession of rate cuts, and then to 1.5% (where it is currently), and businesses' ...

OECD tells RBA to take a hike

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2017
... - 5.5% in 2017, 5.5% in 2018 and 5.25% in 2019. Case for a rate hike? The headlines think so: "Reserve Bank to hike cash rate, OECD says" (The Sydney Morning Herald); "OECD says Australian economy ready for higher RBA rates" (The Australian Financial ...

Australian business conditions gone gangbusters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 NOV 2017
... confidence remains a bit of a puzzle." This certainly doesn't fit with the current record low level of the official cash rate (1.5%) nor the current neutral stance in RBA monetary policy. The last time business conditions were nearly this lovely (+20 ...

Time to start factoring in an RBA rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 OCT 2017
... about the ANZ and NAB's call for the RBA to remove at least the "emergency accommodation" that brought the official cash rate to a record low of 1.5%. If the recent trend in Australian consumer spending - or in this case, not spending - continues, we ...

A matter of assumptions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2017
... guessing... and so are the "experts''. The ANZ and the NAB guess that the Australian central bank would lift the official cash rate by 25 basis points twice by the end of 2018, taking the current rate of 1.5% to 2%. These are based on their view that ...

Fed does the thinkable

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 SEP 2017
... conditions." Based on the Taylor Rule and using the Fed's 2018 forecasts for growth (2.1%), inflation (1.9%) and the neutral cash rate (2.75%), my calculations show that the fed funds rate should be at 2.75% next year. The Fed's uncertainty over inflation ...

Lower returns but higher balances for SMSFs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 18 SEP 2017
... for longer'. McBirnie said this is reflective of the Reserve Bank of Australia noting in July that the neutral nominal cash rate is now 3.5% rather than 5% previously. "Even so, SMSF households are still better placed than most sectors of the community ...