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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014
... cent in January, the biggest drop in four years. In local economic news on Wednesday, Reserve Bank of Australia deputy governor Philip Lowe is slated to give a speech at a Sydney Institute function. The Westpac/Melbourne Institute Survey of Consumer ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014
... unemployment rate is expected to hold steady at 6.6 per cent. In local economic news on Friday, Reserve Bank of Australia governor Glenn Stevens is scheduled to appear before the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics. The Australian ...

When saving goes bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
... into the economy. The more the government saves, the more households save, the more businesses saves. Guess it's up to Governor Glen Stevens to save the day. But tell me how anyone could afford to pay zero percent interest rates with zero income? Saving ...

A-dollar zero point six six

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
... prices - and/or rising inflation - which slows growth and weakens the US dollar. And does anybody think that the RBA Governor Glen Stevens would sit idly by and hold "interest rates until 2016" if the dollar-A's drop to US$0.66 by end 2015 results in ...

Action!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2014
... the moment. A moment that could extend beyond the April fools' day consumption tax increase (fingers crossed) with BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda's signing on with the 'forward guidance' club. Although "... the economy is evolving smoothly and is moving ...

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2014
... monetary stimulus on Thursday, promising to inject about $1.4 trillion into the economy in less than two years... New Governor Haruhiko Kuroda committed the BOJ to open-ended asset buying and said the monetary base would nearly double to 270 trillion ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014
... Friday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases December lending finance data. Reserve Bank of Australia Assistant Governor (Economic) Christopher Kent is slated to speak to the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) Economic and ...

Confusing versus credible

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2014
... but it's made the news today with the release of the Bank of England's (BOE) Quarterly Inflation Report. Imported BOE Governor Mark Carney is also doing a Yellen cum Bullard and "elaborated" on forward guidance. "The first phase of guidance gave businesses ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2014
... news on Thursday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases labour force data for January. Reserve Bank Assistant Governor (Financial Markets) Guy Debelle will be a panel discussant at the CIFR Financial Market Developments Symposium. In equities ...

You say threshold, I say trigger

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
... lead to the immediate withdrawal of accommodative policy." Yup, use the "it's a threshold not a trigger" excuse. BOE Governor Mark Carney - who finds himself in the same "forward guidance" predicament - uses it, so why couldn't you? If the 6.5% unemployment ...