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Chief economist update: RBA heading to zero

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2019
... markets around the globe down, lopping A$53 billion off the Australian equity market on the same day the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) held its August board meeting. As expected, the RBA kept interest rates on hold at 1% following its back-to-back ...

RBA in no rush to lift cash rate

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2019
Investors should brace for the 1% cash rate environment to continue, after Reserve Bank of Australia governor Philip Lowe turned the spotlight to the stubborn inflation rates at a Sydney lunch yesterday. Speaking at Anika Foundation Luncheon, Lowe said ...

Government reduces deeming rates

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2019
... investments, loans and debentures, listed shares and securities, and some income streams. In June, the Reserve Bank of Australia made the first round of rate cuts from 1.5% to 1.25%. It immediately followed with another cut in July, slashing the official ...

Chief economist update: Hard target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2019
With business conditions and confidence like it is, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA)'s full employment target just got a little harder to meet. Recall that in his speech at the RBA board dinner with the business community on June 4 - the night ...

Chief economist update: Australia needs a cheaper A$

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2019
... 50 bps from the current 2.25%-2.5% as early as its July FOMC meeting to just a 25bps reduction. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) would have clicked "like" though. This is because rising Fed rate cut expectations have nullified its back-to-back 25 ...

Chief economist update: The turn in Australia's cycle from vicious to virtuous

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2019
... issue of Brexit and Trump, among others. The domestic economy is none too good either - so much so the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has had to deliver back-to-back reductions in the official cash rate from 1.5% to 1.25% (in June) and to 1.0% (in July) ...

Chief economist update: Iron ore on the up and up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2019
... weaker property market - allowing the Morrison Government to expand fiscal stimulus in tandem with the Reserve Bank of Australia, if necessary.

Chief economist update: RBA justified to cut rates or not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2019
There's no question about it, for sure and for certain the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will cut interest rates again. RBA governor Philip Lowe told us so when he addressed the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) event in Adelaide ...

Chief economist update: Another RBA rate cut should be enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2019
... pound (-1.3%); and the Chinese yuan (-1.5%). According to financial market whispers, expectations the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) would follow-up its 25 basis point rate cut to 1.25% handed this month with not one, not two but three more rate reductions ...

Chief economist update: Australian bull market here we come

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2019
Just a weetle more, a weetle more... a little more push higher and sooner than soon, the All Ordinaries index would satisfy the technical definition of a bull market - a 20% rally from its nearest low - and onwards towards topping its record high of ...