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Chief economist update: BOE lets peers do the heavy lifting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2019
... policy committee decided to keep current monetary policy settings at its June meeting just like the Fed and the Bank of Japan, it offered an opposing forward guidance to the future path of UK interest rates. The British central bank admitted in its June ...

Chief economist update: Expect more of the same from the BOJ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2019
... Fed rate cuts (one, two or three for the RBA) going forward, but there are no such similar expectations for the Bank of Japan (BOJ). With the BOJ's policy rate currently at negative 0.1% and its "yield curve control" measure keeping the yield on ...

Retiree savings won't last: World Economic Forum

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2019
... not accelerated fast enough to address this deterioration and, as such, most retirees in six nations - Australia, Canada, Japan, the Netherlands, the UK and the US - can expect to live past their savings by almost a decade. Han Yik, WEF head of institutional ...

Chief economist update: Australian bull market here we come

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2019
... relatively better than the US (yield curve inversion predicts a coming recession); the low growth economies of the Eurozone and Japan and though it's at par with UK growth, there's still the lingering Brexit uncertainty there. Also, Australia ...

Liquidnet acquires fintech

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2019
... on 3000 publicly traded companies listed in the US and 15 central banks including the Reserve Bank of Australia, Bank of Japan, US Fed Reserve and European "Prattle is yet another powerful tool for asset managers to discover actionable insight from the ...

Chief economist update: Oil market slides from bull to bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2019
... pause; China's stimulus measures and expectations of continued easy policy by the central banks of the Eurozone and Japan, among others; and (at the time) hopes for a US-China trade deal, improving sentiment over the global growth outlook and therefore ...

Australians retire too wealthy: Grattan

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2019
... "They've assumed people live until 92 and have reduced function after 80. I have an aunt who is 93 she travelled to Japan this year, she went to Finland last year and saw the Northern Lights." Knox also criticised the modelling for looking at single ...

Chief economist update: The greatest challenge of our time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2019
... the same or lower in the future? It becomes a self-fulfilling slower growth prophecy or even economic contraction. Think Japan since the 1990s. A more sinister repercussion is that persistently low inflation could raise doubts about central banks' ...

Chief economist update: Currency manipulators beware

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2019
As if the world hasn't had enough of the overhanging pall engendered by lingering trade tensions, US President Trump is about to raise the stakes and expand the scope to currency manipulators. This I learned from The New York Times (NYT) on May ...

Chief economist update: Devilish details

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2019
It's still a month away, but when the policy board of the Bank of Japan (BOJ) meets to assess the state of the economy and its monetary policy response on 19-20 June, it could claim the economy is progressing as printed at its meeting in April. ...