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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. ...

Good goings-on in China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUL 2017
... following its quarterly meeting, Xinhua news agency recently reported the PBOC's commitment to "prudent and neutral monetary policy" as well as its aim to "accelerate financial reforms to improve the financial sector's efficiency". The PBOC will also ...

Data dictates immediate BOE action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2017
... from 2.5%) have been accelerating. At face value, these stats indicate that there's no more trade-off, the BOE's monetary policy committee (MPC) should raise interest rates now. However, as Gertjan Vlieghe - MPC external member - said in his interview ...