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RBA expands stimulus measures to states

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2020
The Reserve Bank of Australia has injected around $2 billion into state bonds, as it expands its unconventional monetary policy measures. The move comes as a bid to revive the ability of the states, particularly New South Wales and Victoria, to borrow ...

Chief economist update: COVID-19 eating into jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2020
... target rate back to zero) to a US$700 billion QE and ultimately expanded into an open-ended one. With both fiscal and monetary policy working towards a common a goal -- restoring consumer, business and investor confidence - perhaps, this time, the optimism ...

Chief economist update: The cheaper alternative

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2020
... According to the same website, Australia has 2144 cases, eight deaths and 118 recoveries. Just like the UK, fiscal and monetary authorities here (and elsewhere) are trying to mitigate the fallout on the functioning of the general economic activity. Just ...

Recovery expected in 2021: IMF

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2020
... health systems and protect affected workers and firms," she said. "We welcome the moves of major central banks to ease monetary policy. These bold efforts are not only in the interest of each country, but of the global economy as a whole. Even more will ...

Chief economist update: Lock us down Scotty!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2020
... disappear, consumed by a tiny speck of micro-organism. Remember Murphy's Law? "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong". Monetary and Keynesian stimulus measures, and governments nationalising banks and other financial institutions got the world ...

Chief economist update: What happens in China...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2020
... isolation. But I digress. Just as the rate of infections from the coronavirus grow exponentially by the day, fiscal and monetary authorities in an increasing number of countries around the world increase their spending - and tighten physical interaction ...

Chief economist update: Cash splash

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2020
... world over as they try to calm nerves and get ahead of the coronavirus that's paralysed economic activity. Fiscal and monetary authorities are splashing cash, printing money and throwing everything at their disposal to try to prevent the certainty ...

Chief economist update: Water, water everywhere and not a fish to catch

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2020
... "Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink." "Water, water everywhere but not a fish to catch." In another context, monetary and fiscal authorities are now flooding the world with liquidity (cash) but government directives for social distancing ...

Chief economist update: Australian recession here we come

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2020
... there'll be no domestic earnings to hope for. Lockdowns and bans from social gatherings would negate the cash splurge from monetary and fiscal authorities. Citizens will have more money that they couldn't spend on and if they could, there's ...

Chief economist update: China leads the way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2020
... stock market in the world (or at least compared with other major equity markets). But its containment regulations and monetary and fiscal policy support appears to be working. It's now re-opening its factories and shops for business. So much so ...