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Something interesting about rates

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2008
... leading economist and now chairman of managed accounts provider Praemium, told the Melbourne Financial Standard Chief Economists Forum on Thursday that, "It is essential to keep inflation low. Anyone who says we should go soft on inflation and rate targets ...

Interest rates - when economics meets politics

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2008
... rises as rent increases that could exceed 10 per cent. Making all these ideas academic, a Reuters survey of market economists last week found that 21 out of 24 believe the Reserve will flick the rates switch. At least the good news is that if rates do ...

Cautiously upbeat: Economists Forum

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2008
... was the American Dialect Society's 2007 word of the year but 2008's might be stagflation or even agflation, leading economists told today's Chief Economists Forum in Sydney. "There is a recession in US housing and it will get worse and even feel like ...

Asia's de-coupling is on track

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2008
... not to follow it into what could be a deeper recession than 2001. While exports and profits will arguably drop, many economists believe Asia will be considerably less affected than in previous American downturns due to much healthier macroeconomic fundamentals ...

China's investor confidence crisis

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2008
... cent while Hong Kong's bellwether index, the Hang Seng plunged 8.7 per cent to close a third down on its 31,600 high. Economists aren't calling an end to China's bull market just yet. But Jing Ulrich, analyst with JP Morgan said most now believe the ...

What US recession?

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2008
... overstated, overplayed, and blown out of proportion - but the outlook for 2008 still looks fairly benign, according to economists from Lehman Brothers. "There's a 60 per cent chance, in our view, that the economy will not go into recession," said Paul ...

Conflicting rate calls

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2008
There's growing expectation among European economists that the European Central Bank (ECB) will be forced to follow the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England and start lowering interest rates. Ironically, iterations from executive board member Juergen ...

Too little too late

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2008
While economists regard the Rudd Government's announced five-point, anti-inflationary package as positive, it's not expected to be a threshold issue for the Reserve Bank. There are no hard specifics as to where savings will come from, but Labor expects ...

When a lift in unemployment is good news

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2007
... in work is even better news as it means the participation rate is rising, which is exactly the policy outcome labour economists are now striving for. Of course some commentators are also complaining about the employment rise but these complaints just ...

US Fed hints rates holiday may be over

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2007
... in driving down their currency and causing oil prices to explode into US$90-100 zone. Reactions are so bad that many economists are now warning of a global slowdown, contracting world trade and deflation in 2008. If Kohn is warning that the US Fed won't ...