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No follow through

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 AUG 2017
... likely to become necessary if the trade-off facing the MPC continues to lessen..." The BOE's announced no change in monetary policy at its 3 August meeting -- - the first since Carney made the statement in late June. The British central bank's monetary ...

Australian dollar poses problem for RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 AUG 2017
... evolving broadly as expected. The Bank's forecasts are little changed from those published in the May Statement on Monetary Policy. The economy is expected to grow at an annual rate of around 3% over the next couple of years, which is a bit higher than ...

RBI succumbs to low-flation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2017
... reverse repo rate to 5.75% (reversing the 25 bps hike announced only four months before) - following its 2 August Monetary policy committee (MPC) meeting. Financial markets widely expected the decision given India's deteriorating growth and inflation ...

Cheaper imports

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2017
... report provided clues as to the RBA's thinking with regards to inflation, and therefore, the near-term direction of monetary policy. Governor Lowe discussed and tried to explain in detail why stronger labour markets - in Australia and the world - aren't ...

Not showing: inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 JUL 2017
... rise by much. Debelle also revealed the RBA's displeasure at the Australian dollar's ascent. "...while an easier monetary policy elsewhere in the world should lead to faster growth in the world economy, which is good for the Australian economy, an appreciating ...

Good jobs, sluggish pay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUL 2017
... market data had removed some of the downside risk in the Bank's forecast of wage growth." In its May 'Statement on Monetary Policy', the RBA said "Wage growth is expected to remain at around its current rate over the next year..." That current rate is ...

Jump goes the Aussie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUL 2017
... optimism over the international and domestic economy, it told us so - in black and white - in its 4 July Statement of Monetary Policy. But the minutes of that meeting indicate that it was more optimistic than the optimism it relayed in the short statement. ...

Is the Fed the victim of its own success?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 JUL 2017
"It is worth remembering that it can take 18 to 24 months for a monetary policy action to have its full effect on inflation. This means that central banks must target future inflation by anticipating future deviations from target." These were the words ...

Dovish Fed, hawkish BOC

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUL 2017
... "the output gap is now projected to close around the end of 2017, earlier than the Bank anticipated in its April Monetary Policy Report (MPR)" - when it predicted the output gap to close in the first half of 2018. Reason perhaps why the BOC is not taking ...

Hawkish central banks? Not the BOJ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2017
... distance to achieving 2% inflation, so it's inappropriate to say now specifically how we will exit our ultra-loose monetary policy and how that could affect the BOJ's financial health. Laying out specific simulations now would only create confusion. ...