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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 ...

US turns to QE, RBA to follow

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2020
... and the rapidity of any bounce back, may depend on the agility of the policy response," Miller said. "The capacity of monetary policy to remediate a supply shock is limited and as already noted the well is dry. "Having said that what centrals banks can ...

Chief economist update: Coronavirus cures climate change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2020
... emergency and announcement of US$50 billion fund to fight the coronavirus pandemic. This is in addition to a number of monetary policy support measures planned and already implemented by many central banks of the world. In China the PBOC announced targeted ...

Chief economist update: The corona crash of 2020

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020
... travel ban - cancelation of concerts and events, school, factory and office closures... generally, a general lockdown. Monetary and fiscal authorities have responded: The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has cut interest rates by 25 bps earlier this month ...

Alternatives to lead the way: J.P. Morgan

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2020
... shift of the coronavirus from localized epidemic to global pandemic saw a striking change in expectations for looser monetary policy, meaning higher bond prices and lower yields." Craig said that while central banks willingness to act may cushion the ...

Virus fallout worse than GFC: IMF

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
The International Monetary Fund has called on every government around the world to introduce substantial targeted policies to support the economy through the coronavirus epidemic. In a blog post, Gita Gopinath, economic counsellor and director of the ...

Chief economist update: Coronaphobia sickens Japan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2020
... FY 2020-2021. It's therefore hardly surprising that financial markets widely expect the BOJ to announce an easing monetary policy very, very soon. But with its policy rate at negative 0.1% and targets the 10-year JGBs at zero, it may have very little ...