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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2016
Australia business confidence The Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) 25bps cut in the official cash rate to 1.50% in August helped lift the NAB business confidence indext from a reading of plus 4 in July to plus 6 last month - consistent with its long-term ...

Future Fund ahead of target on tenth birthday

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2016
The Future Fund has celebrated its tenth anniversary by passing a significant funds under management milestone after achieving ahead of target performance numbers. At 30 June the flagship Future Fund reached $122.8 billion in funds under management ...

Combination of fiscal and monetary policy essential for Japan

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2016
Japan must look to a combination of fiscal and monetary policy if it wishes to achieve the structural reform as set out in the third arrow of Abenomics, according to QIC Shocking global markets with the announcement of negative cash rates in late January ...

Investors must be ready for grey swans

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2016
Investors should look to cash as global market uncertainty leads to a growing number of 'grey swan' events, according to IOOF portfolio manager, fixed interest and cash, Juanita Escobar Derived from Nassim Nicholas Taleb's black swan theory - an event ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2016
... of New Zealand (RBNZ) for its decision to cut interest rates a second time this year. The RBNZ lowered the official cash rate by 25 bps to a record low 2.0% after its 11 August Board meeting. It last lowered interest rates from 2.5% to 2.25% back in ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2016
... further. Recall that the RBA flagged the easing in the home lending market as among its reasons for lowering the official cash rate earlier this month. Japan machinery orders At last, some rare good news out of Japan. Machinery orders jumped by 8.3% ...

K2 hurt by Brexit call

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2016
... 13% in June also had an impact on K2's performance. Neal said K2 expected the US Federal Reserve to lift its official cash rate in December 2015, however it did not expect the People's Bank of China to then devalue the Yuan against the US dollar and ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2016
... quarterly rate. Business confidence is expected to improve in coming months as the RBA's 25 basis point cut in the official cash rate to 1.5% on the 2nd of August (announced after the survey) filters through into the economy. US non-farm productivity ...

Central bank Olympics - the race is on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2016
... institutions". Unlike the BOJ, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) did not blame Brexit for its decision to lower the official cash rate to a fresher low of 1.5% when its Board met on the 2nd of August. Below-target inflation is RBA's problem - headline ...

ABA denies precedent for matching RBA cash rates

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2016
... Bankers' Association has rejected calls from Parliament to justify its interest rate pricing based on the Reserve Bank's cash rate. Following the RBA cutting the cash rate to 1.75%, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull told media that "the commercial banks ...