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Chief economist update: No target sign on India's back

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 APR 2018
... shackled by the on-going trade war uncertainty. So much so, that when the Indian central bank met on 5 April and kept monetary policy settings unchanged - repo rate unchanged at 6.0%; reverse repo rate at 5.75%; and, the Bank Rate at 6.25%. There was ...

Chief economist update: Japan's other war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2018
... at US$105.84 on that day and had been partially reversed when Kuroda emphasised that the BOJ will continue with monetary policy stimulus until it achieves its 2% inflation target. At the end of the day, Japan doesn't want to fight a trade war while it's ...

Chief economist update: The survey says...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2018
... growth of 6.5% this year from 6.9% in 2017. If Trump's protectionism gets in the way, the PBOC has scope to ease monetary policy given that the country's core inflation rate (2.5%) remains below its target of around 3%. Ben Ong is the Director of Economics ...

Chief economist update: Just a hiccup in a rising trend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2018
... market volatility continue to put Wall Street to task, Main Street is taking the goings-on in America - fiscal and monetary policy, economics, politics and international trade - in its stride. This is no better underscored by the just-released results ...

Chief economist update: The trend is not our friend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2018
... unemployment give guidance on the state of domestic economic activity and insight into the future direction of fiscal and monetary policy. By tracking the jobs data, investors can sense the degree of tightness in the domestic labour market. A tight jobs ...

Chief economist update: Hostage to speculations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018
The Bank of Japan (BOJ) faces an uphill battle in its quest to normalise monetary policy if economic and financial market agents continue to "hear what they want to hear and see what they want to see." The yen rose to its highest level since November ...

PIMCO sells Aussie banks as correction looms

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2018
... growth and "gently rising inflation." Exacerbating this is the wider global trend of central banks tightening monetary policy. "While fundamentals and technicals keep us invested, our assessment of valuations argues for smaller overweight positions ...

Chief economist update: The uncertainty that is Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2018
... underscore America's best of times than that tracked by the US Federal Reserve to gauge its success or otherwise of its monetary policy settings and direction - employment and inflation. The US non-farm payrolls report showed employment increased by ...

Chief economist update: Australia cruising at low altitude

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2018
... 2.5% annual growth rate recorded in the same quarter of last year. This helps explain the RBA's inaction over monetary policy over the course of 2017 and the change in expectations from two rate hikes this year to nil. To be sure, these are dated stats ...

Chief economist update: Next move in rates will likely be up, but it's not certain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
... it! But perhaps not very many noticed that while it was not a cut and paste job, the message contained in the monetary policy statement of 6 March 2018 echoed that made in March (even February) last year - that of expectations of stronger growth, improving ...