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Chief economist update: Strength in jobs downs RBA rate cut expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2020
... the official cash rate by 25 basis points - to 0.5% - when it holds its first board meeting for 2020 on February 4. No Virginia, I didn't say that, it's derived from changed expectations with markets pricing in only a 24% chance of a February ...

Super fund grows US real estate assets

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2020
... retirement savings expanded its US property portfolio, adding residential and office tower complexes in Washington and Virginia. QSuper has closed two property deals in the US, acquiring a two-tower office complex in Bellevue, Washington and a twin-tower ...

Chief economist update: It's Christmas time in the city

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2019
... the expectations index (up 1.6 points to 88.9) increased over the month. "let it snow, let it snow, let it snow". Yes Virginia, it's snowing jobs. The US non-farm payrolls report showed that the economy added 266,000 jobs in November - well above ...

Chief economist update: Bah humbug

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2019
... merry little Christmas, Let your heart be light From now on, Our troubles will be out of sight..." - Judy Garland Yes, Virginia, it looked like that over the past few weeks and into the first days of the Christmas month. The rally in equity markets made ...

Chief economist update: Reversal of fortune

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2019
... the slowing momentum in economic activity in this 'Lucky Country', but I'm starting to change my tune. Yes Virginia, I'm still scouring through the pages of the RBA's Statement on Monetary Policy released earlier this month and eureka ...

Chief economist update: Brexit la la la

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2019
It won't be over till it's over. Yes Virginia, the uncertainty that is Brexit festers on, pushed further until Britons have cast their vote at (yet another) general election to be held on 12 December (December 13 in Australia) and from there ...

Chief economist update: The BOJ needs to run faster to stay in the running

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2019
... amounts outstanding will increase at annual paces of about six trillion yen and about 90 billion yen, respectively". Yes Virginia, the BOJ maintained that it will "continue with "quantitative and qualitative monetary easing (QQE) with yield curve control," ...

Chief economist update: Future path of fed funds rate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2019
... on 10-year US Treasuries was unchanged at 1.8%; and the Bloomberg US dollar spot index ticked up by a mere 0.2%. Yes Virginia, there's nothing to write home to mother about. They're all within the normal day-to-day ups and downs of the markets. ...

Chief economist update: Whatever it takes, however long it takes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2019
... appropriate, to ensure that inflation moves towards its aim in a sustained manner, in line with its commitment to symmetry." Yes Virginia, it's now not only "whatever it takes" but "however long it takes". If you want to know how long, it's as ...

Chief economist update: Fed has Trump's trade war number

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2019
It's not me, it's you! Yes Virginia, you, I and Irene are very well aware of US president Donald J. Trump's Twitter attacks on the Fed. The last, most significant one was right after US Federal chair Jerome Powell's speech at Jackson ...