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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 ...

Fed trumps Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2017
... economic agenda from Trump. While financial markets already know the gist of the 2-3 May FOMC meeting from the monetary policy statement announced at its conclusion, the minutes of that meeting provide nothing but good tidings for America... with or ...

Eurozone ascending

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2017
... board of the European Central Bank (ECB) - recent comments are any indication, don't expect any changes in ECB monetary policy settings anytime soon. Coure told his audience at a conference at the Paris School of Economics that, "When interest rates ...

Three steps and yields stumble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 MAY 2017
... March 2016, and yet US equity market indices remain at or near record highs. Maybe the Fed's "unconventional" monetary policy - and lately, Trump - has rendered this "wise old saying" obsolete. Also, the Fed's three rate hikes since December 2015 has ...

No 'Plan B' for Brexit "twist and turns"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2017
... 1.8% (from 1.7%) in 2019 - the years when the UK and the EU are in the midst of negotiations. As noted in the Monetary Policy Statement, "In the MPC's central forecast, weaker consumption this year is largely balanced by rising net trade and investment. ...