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Chief economist update: BOJ has no plans to ease easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2021
... at its March meeting - short-term key interest rate at minus 0.1% and the target for the 10-year Japanese government bond yield at around 0%. It also pledged that it "will continue with Quantitative and Qualitative Monetary Easing (QQE) with Yield Curve ...

Chief economist update: Powell said, Yellen said

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2021
The monetary and fiscal masters of the US of A fronted the Senate Banking Committee - as required under the March 2020 COVID-19 relief law - singing a rendition of Louis Armstrong's What a Wonderful World. In his testimony, Federal Reserve chair ...

Chief economist update: The do-nothing Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021
Ho-hum. So much for speculations over the Fed's thoughts and actions, Powell and Co. did what financial markets expected - nothing - at their 16-17 March FOMC meeting. "The Committee decided to keep the target range for the federal funds rate at ...

Citi moves to double wealth business revenues

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2021
... clients come to Citi for our global expertise, and access to a wide range of products from traditional fixed income, to high yield fixed income solutions, structured products and more," Chowdhury said. "In today's volatile environment, impacted by both ...

No more easy 6% returns: Fidelity

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2021
Despite the fairly sunny economic outlook, lower investment returns are a reality that institutional investors will have to grapple with, according to Fidelity International. Fidelity International cross asset investment specialist Anthony Doyle said ...

Chief economist update: More manna from UK Treasury

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2021
... billion." Inflation worries and the consequent spike in US bond yields have lifted sovereign bond yields almost everywhere. The yield on UK gilts have risen to a high of 0.80% this year. This is already 73 percentage points higher than the 0.07% low ...

Chief economist update: Getting better, but not better enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2021
... end of the range of recent years."...and like them, is pushing back, saying: "The bank remains committed to the three-year yield target and recently purchased bonds to support the target and will continue to do so as necessary... The bank is prepared ...

Australian equities funds downgraded

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2021
... Perpetual Wholesale Industrial, Russell High Dividend Australian Shares ETF and SPDR MSCI Australia Select High Dividend Yield ETF. NovaPort Smaller Companies dropped to neutral from silver with Morningstar putting its reduced conviction down to changes ...

Chief economist update: Fed fights back bond bears

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2021
... intention of pushing up (10-year bond yields) above its target of around 0%... "It's important now to keep the entire yield curve stably low as the economy suffers the damage from COVID-19". So too has the Bank of Korea (BOK). In its latest statement ...

Chief economist update: The cloud over the rainbow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2021
"I think I can make it now, the pain is gone All of the bad feelings have disappeared Here is the rainbow I've been prayin' for It's gonna be a bright (bright), bright (bright) Sun-shiny day." -- Johnny Nash, "I Can See Clearly Now" Do you ...