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Chief economist update: RBA heading to zero

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2019
... former official who oversaw the Treasury's currency-manipulator monitoring for 14 years, and is now at the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum, a think tank, notes that China meets only the first of those three conditions." But I digress. ...

Chief economist update: Look out below

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2019
... are struggling to get inflation up to within their stated target rates - and this time, there's limited scope for monetary policy stimulation with the currently prevailing low, zero, and even negative interest rates. What's more chilling is that ...

Chief economist update: Fed cut and Trump's war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2019
... business investment - both in the US and its trading partners. Central banks are now easing or maintaining ultra-loose monetary policies in response. But as The Economist printed (in its discussion of the Fed's interest rate cut): "A further cut ...

RBA in no rush to lift cash rate

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2019
... outcome," he said. "But if demand growth is not sufficient, the board is prepared to provide additional support by easing monetary policy further. However, as I have discussed on other occasions, other arms of public policy could also play a role in ...

Chief economist update: A case for optimism

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2019
... that'll lead to higher unemployment, consumer pessimism... Zero official cash rate here we come. However, note that monetary policy operates with a lag. In Australia, it takes about 12-18 months changes in monetary policy trickles down into general ...

Chief economist update: BOE flips tightening bias to easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2019
... 25 bps to 2%-2.25% at the conclusion of its July FOMC meeting at 95.1%. This is backed-up by the Fed's semi-annual Monetary Policy Report noting: "Since the beginning of May, the tenor of incoming information on economic activity, on balance, has ...

Chief economist update: Currency manipulators beware

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2019
... than its trading partners. This is the reason why other world central banks are maintaining or easing their respective monetary policies - and in the process cheapening their currencies - in the first place. Trump's motto appears to be, I win only ...

Chief economist update: The back-to-back rate cuts Australia has to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2019
... Settlements (BIS) - the world's central bank of central banks - chief Agustin Carstens that delivered a day before that: "Monetary policy should be considered more as a backstop rather than as a spearhead of a strategy to induce higher sustainable ...

Chief economist update: BOJ Tankan tanking?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2019
... of the major risks to its outlook that its economy is "likely to continue on a moderate expanding trend" at its June monetary policy meeting. The BOJ's latest Tankan survey indicates that the US-China trade stoush is, indeed, causing consternation ...

Chief economist update: Iron ore on the up and up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2019
... has had deleterious effects on the Chinese economy. So much so the powers in Beijing have resorted to both fiscal and monetary policy stimulation to mitigate the downdraft from trade. One illustration of China's stimulus measures is June's announcement ...