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Chief economist update: The second wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2020
... decline (assuming no second wave). Besides, Fed chair Jerome Powell and his merry men and women of the FOMC pledged to keep monetary policy accommodative "until it is confident that the economy has weathered recent events and is on track to achieve its ...

US GDP to contract 6.5%: Fed

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2020
... and confidence that the policy authorities have the economic challenges of the COVID-19 crisis in hand whether through monetary or fiscal measures." The Fed forecast US unemployment will fall to 9.3% in the final three months of the year from 13.3% in ...

Chief economist update: Don't fight the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2020
... achieving its objectives returning until after the year 2022. The "FOMC participants' assessments of appropriate monetary policy: Midpoint of target range or target level for the federal funds rate" chart shows that all 17 of them expect the fed ...

Chief economist update: Australian recession - the next generation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2020
... Mighty Mo's rescue packages - more specifically, his JobSeeker and JobKeeper schemes and of course, the RBA's monetary policy accommodation. So much so that, while the June quarter National Accounts will for sure and for certain confirm a technical ...

Stop guessing games: AMP Capital

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2020
... is likely to be large and a sustainable demand recovery is dependent upon health solutions rather than just fiscal and monetary policy, and rapid redeployment of lost labour." He added that despite the world in some ways literally stopping as a result ...

Economic outlook not as bad as predicted: RBA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2020
... recovery in the global economy will get under way, supported by both the large fiscal packages and the significant easing in monetary policies." Lowe noted that while some markets remain fragile, markets around the globe have continued to show improvement. ...

Chief economist update: What to expect when you're expecting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2020
... will only confirm what everyone already is expecting. RBA Governor Philip Lowe and his board will keep Australia's monetary policy settings unchanged - the targets for the official cash rate at 0.25% and the yield on three-year Australian government ...

Wage growth, not wage cuts

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020
... population and workforce participation." With fluctuations in wage growth presumed to be cyclical, open to correction by monetary and fiscal policy - the Reserve Bank had persistently overestimated wage growth over the past decade, he said. "Wage growth ...

Red tape to slow recovery: Lowe

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020
... there has been an unprecedented policy response. "On the economic front, there has been very close coordination between monetary and fiscal policy, as there should be at times like this," Lowe said. "As part of the RBA's contribution to dealing with ...

The future is fast arriving: BlackRock

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2020
... markets, the Institute said, with yields dropping sharply across nominal government bonds. Yields would only rise if monetary and fiscal policy coordination suppressed rates in the coming years, it said. Return expectations have also been severely shifted ...