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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 ...

Australian property love affair cannot please everyone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017
... However, longer-term investors who monitor credit activity will have a greater understanding of the direction of monetary policy and its consequent impact on various investment assets.

Central Banks fail to disappoint

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 JUN 2017
... continued progress in macro- dynamics and therefore, the outlook. The RBA, the ECB, the BOJ and the BOE all kept monetary policy unchanged at their latest meetings, as expected. The US Federal Reserve lifted the fed funds rate from 0.75% -1.0% to 1.0% ...

Cloudy skies in the land of the rising sun

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2017
... like the Fed and the ECB and most other central banks engaged in non-conventional policies, wants to get their monetary policy settings back to normal. But unlike the Fed, Japan's economic fundamentals suggest that now is not yet the time. More so given ...

Better, but not good enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUN 2017
... highlighted the financial risk from elevated and rising credit growth and house prices and interest rate gaps - monetary policy divergence between the US and the Eurozone and Japan. "Closing this policy-path gap will likely engender higher financial ...

BetaShares launches defensive ETF

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2017
... "In the US, the Federal Reserve has raised interest rates twice in the past six months in the effort to return monetary policy to a more normal footing. In Australia, the last increase in the cash rate by the Reserve Bank was in November 2010, while ...

No spend, no inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2017
In its 'Summary of Opinions at the Monetary Policy Meeting on April 26 and 27, 2017', released on the 10th of May, the BOJ no longer spoke of an economic "recovery", instead it talked about an economic "expansion" - the most optimistic the BOJ had been ...

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Global X awards mandate for ETF business

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Bell Asset Management launches small-caps fund

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Former Australian Ethical finance chief lands new gig

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