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Chief economist update: Wheels of US recession in motion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2019
... bend to Trump's recent demand to cut the fed funds rate "by at least 100 basis points, with perhaps some quantitative easing as well"? Obeying Trump's diktat would just erode the fed's credibility and independence while at the same time ...

Chief economist update: Tweeting Trump versus totalitarian Xi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 AUG 2019
... Rate, over a fairly short period of time, should be reduced by at least 100 basis points, with perhaps some quantitative easing as well. If that happened, our Economy would be even better, and the World Economy would be greatly and quickly enhanced-good ...

Chief economist update: Global easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2019
... "We are prepared to do unconventional things if the circumstances warranted it". Negative interest rates? Quantitative easing? You name it! But these policy prescriptions/actions aren't "unconventional" anymore... they have become the convention ...

Chief economist update: Bonds do the limbo rock

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2019
... 0.35%. "The RBNZ could also conduct large scale purchases of either government or corporate bonds, known as quantitative easing" or "the targeted use of fiscal policy to support any unconventional monetary policy," it says. Surely, other central banks ...

Chief economist update: The Fed pause that refreshes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2019
... to the Fed earlier this month by Trump - "In terms of quantitative tightening it should absolutely now be quantitative easing" - and White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow - he wants the Fed to "immediately" cut interest rates by 50 basis points - ...

Chief economist update: Two indicators giving the Fed a headache

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2019
... President Trump's latest "advice" to the Fed: "In terms of quantitative tightening it should absolutely now be quantitative easing". And days before that, White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow made it known he wants the Fed to "immediately" cut ...

Bonds reward equity investors seeking refuge

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 DEC 2018
... trillion dollar budget deficits, and its Fed Reserve is reducing its balance sheet by reversing progressively its quantitative easing or bond buying initiatives. "Both these additions to supply should lift the cost or interest rate, which will be supportive ...

Financial literacy critical to European retirement

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2018
... real terms." "Despite 10 years of low interest rates and a few years of negative interest rates because of quantitative easing in Europe, households still keep holding cash and do not own investment products," Greco said. "Why? Because they don't understand ...

Hedge fund industry body promotes Aussie talent

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2018
... to support industry growth and development over what are likely to be two fascinating years for markets as quantitative easing ceases and more powerful technologies continue to transform practices," Chadwick said. AIMA Australia general manager Michael ...

Chief economist update: BOJ to stop throwing good money after bad?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2018
... when it rolled out one policy stimulus after another to try and get to that elusive 2% inflation. There was quantitative easing in 2013 and expanded in 2014, QE with negative interest rate in January 2016 that later became "Qualitative and Quantitative ...