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Big banks, super funds join forces for sustainability

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2019
... material to business and the financial services community," he said. "Climate change was recently described by the deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia as a 'systemic risk' to the stability of our economy, and APRA emphasised last week that ...

RBA issues stern climate change warning

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2019
... Australia says the economy faces an "abrupt" blow to financial stability from climate change. In a speech, RBA's deputy governor Guy Debelle said climate change will likely have a permanent effect on the Australian economic landscape. He also warned ...

Former Westpac GM joins APRA review

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2019
... currently serves as a non-executive director of Wesfarmers. Joining Smith-Gander on the review panel will be former deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Grant Spencer. Spencer formerly held senior roles at the International Monetary Fund ...

Chief economist update: A prelude to a rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2018
... added another month to the length of time it has kept interest rates unchanged at 1.5% since August 2016 - and RBA deputy governor Guy Debelle's hinting a down move on interest rates. In his address to the Australian Business Economists Annual Dinner ...

Chief economist update: Stuck in the very slow lane

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2018
... 2017 quarter and 2.09% in the September quarter. Normally, I wouldn't quibble about decimal points but RBA deputy governor Guy Debelle's recent statement at the CFO Forum held in Sydney yesterday, quipped that "Recent data on wages provides some ...

Surefire Melbourne Cup bet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2017
... household spending isn't strong enough to generate demand-pull inflation. Sweeter still (again not for the RBA) is deputy governor Guy Debelle's talk on "Uncertainty" at the 7th Warren Hogan Memorial Lecture in Sydney last week. This is where he told ...

Not showing: inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 JUL 2017
RBA deputy governor Guy Debelle snuffed hawkish interpretations of the minutes of the 4 July RBA meeting - particularly, the minutes' reference to a 3.5% neutral cash rate - reversing the Australian dollar's upward run. "...the current (nominal) cash ...

Chinese inflation slows and quickens

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2017
People's Bank of China (PBOC) deputy governor Yi Gang's predicted inflation rate of 2% - 3% for this year appears at risk should the recent sharp slowdown in CPI inflation persist over the coming months. Headline inflation increased by a mere 0.8% in ...

Sunny days not expected to last

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2017
... weakness in business investment presents another blow to the BOJ's efforts in defeating deflation and affirms BoJ Deputy Governor Hiroshi Nakaso's recent comment that the central bank still has a long way to go in achieving its 2% inflation target.

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 DEC 2016
... in Q4 from 9.5% in Q3); family income (4.9% from 0.2%); financial situation (0.7% from -2.2%). According to BSP deputy governor Diwa Guinigundo, improvements in the peace and order situation, effective government policies, less government corruption ...