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Chief economist update: Aussie Black Friday spend will end Saturday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2020
... Hip, hip. The RBA wouldn't need to exhaust all its interest rate cut bullets, not to mention engage in quantitative easing, anymore. More so, given that the Morrison government - forgive my cynicism but in its bid to remain in government - has all ...

Chief economist update: Eurozone negative rates a failure?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2019
... Samranvedhya. But on the other hand... I say that Mario Draghi's experiment into negative interest rates and quantitative easing - and all his policy measures in-between - had been successful. I didn't dub him Super Mario for nothing (yes, I ...

Chief economist update: Australian economy gently turning which way?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2019
... conditions persist, 2020 will see the RBA take interest rates to its stated line in the sand of 0.25%, venture into quantitative easing, and the Morrison government forced into raising government spending - bringing forward more tax cuts and lifting ...

Chief economist update: The Grinch steals Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2019
... greenback. RBA Governor Lowe has already stated that 0.25% is the lowest the official cash rate could go. Quantitative easing here we come!

WTW launches first Australian-domiciled fund, names RE

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2019
... returns. "We know macro events are weighing on markets - trade wars, Brexit, recessionary influences, potential quantitative easing - leading to a high level of uncertainty," Goss said. "To outperform the market sustainably, there is a need to group ...

Chief economist update: Arrivederci Signor Draghi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2019
... facility rate down to 0.25% and the deposit facility rate to down to negative 0.4%. Not to mention, the ECB's quantitative easing launched in March 2015. Looking back, these allowed the Eurozone economy to stabilise - GDP growth reached a high of ...

Chief economist update: Beam us up Scotty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2019
... will happen - perhaps down to negative and up to the point where the Australian central bank is forced into quantitative easing and print Australian dollars. This is because latest survey data disprove Reserve Bank Governor Philip Lowe's optimism ...

Chief economist update: When QE is not QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 OCT 2019
... to maintain over time ample reserve balances at or above the level that prevailed in early September 2019." Quantitative easing is that you? Broadly defined by Investopedia, QE is when the Fed (central banks) increases the money supply by "purchasing ...

Chief economist update: Germany in the budget's shadow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2019
... policy" - where many developed country central banks lowered interest rates to zero/negative and/or engaged in quantitative easing. While these prevented the "Great Recession" from turning into an even "Greater Recession" and lifted many world economies ...

Chief economist update: Jerome is in the Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2019
... will not acquiesce to Trump's "demand" to chop rates "by at least 100 basis points, with perhaps some quantitative easing as well". Doing so would just heighten financial market anxiety. Jerome's task is not made any easier by the current internal ...