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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. ...

Japan rides the virtuous cycle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAY 2017
... Bank of Japan's (BOJ) growing optimism over the country's economic outlook. 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 ...

Budget Eve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2017
... with the Reserve Bank of Australia's more optimistic outlook for this land down under. When the RBA released its monetary policy decision last week - unchanged policy - governor Philip Lowe painted a pretty picture of the global and domestic economies. ...

Fearless forecasting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAY 2017
... merry men see no change in their forecasts. "The Committee expects that, with gradual adjustments in the stance of monetary policy, economic activity will expand at a moderate pace, labor market conditions will strengthen somewhat further, and inflation ...

Expanding expansion in manufacturing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAY 2017
... "baby, what a big surprise, right before my very eyes" if the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) shifts - up or down - monetary policy settings when it meets today. No rate cut is in the cards this afternoon despite latest signs that the property market ...

100 days of Trump (and counting)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 MAY 2017
... 11.4% since the 8 November presidential elections. And heck, it's even allowed the Fed to continue normalising monetary policy since, despite heightened geopolitical and economic uncertainties - Syria, North Korea, Russia and French elections and Brexit. ...

The growth-inflation divide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2017
... world's major central banks that met over the past 24 hours. As widely expected, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) kept monetary policy settings unchanged - discount rate at -0.1%; 10-year JGB yield target at 0%; asset purchases at an annual pace of ¥80 trillion ...