Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 601 - 610 of 1450 results for "Monetary Policy"

Trump bigger than Brexit

ALEX BURKE, DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2016
... past gains against the Euro and Yen," he said. Flanders told the ASFA conference: "Low inflation and super-loose monetary policy will continue to support markets; inflation has been at a sweet spot. There's been a bit of leeway when sorting out wage ...

Clinton or Trump or bust?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2016
... Federal Reserve, the Bank of Japan, the Bank of England and the Reserve Bank of Australia all kept their domestic monetary policy settings unchanged. To be sure, only a very few expected one or more or all central banks to announce policy changes owing ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2016
... continued resilience to the uncertainty surrounding its decision to leave the EU - or perhaps, because of the BOE's monetary policy easing last August. Preliminary estimates show that the UK economy expanded by 2.3% in the year to September, up from ...

CPI says RBA no go on Melbourne Cup Day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 OCT 2016
... average of these two core inflation gauges (1.5%) is bang on the RBA's 2016 forecast in its August Statement on Monetary Policy (SoMP). No one wants to be caught with their pants down swimming against the tide for the tide has turned after the CPI report. ...

The Fed "live" in November

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2016
... with the forward guidance she gave after the 21 September FOMC meeting: "This cautious approach to paring back monetary policy support is all the more appropriate given that short-term interest rates are still near zero, which means that we can more ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2016
... 5.6% in September from 5.7% in the previous month as the participation rate decreased to 64.5% from 64.7%. ECB monetary policy decision The European Central Bank (ECB) kept monetary policy unchanged at its 20 October governing council meeting, marking ...

Slow, slower, slowing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2016
... interesting because, to me, it somehow explains the losing battle/diminishing successes of the central banks' monetary policy measures. This is because while the different and differing policy initiatives designed and instituted by the central banks ...

No new monetary policy moves on horizon: AB

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2016
Don't anticipate any further significant easing of monetary policy or any aggressive policy tightening any time soon, AllianceBernstein (AB) has said at a media briefing in Sydney. With its impact having been both minor and unpopular to date, any more ...

Christmas in September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2016
... even higher to ¥100.32. The yen had a similar reaction when the BOJ launched its "Quantitative and Qualitative Monetary Policy Easing with a Negative Interest Rate" on the 29th of January this year -- the yen fell to ¥121.14 from ¥118.82 the day before ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2016
... earlier points to a near-term improvement. Japan trade balance While the world awaits the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) monetary policy decision, freshly-released trade data confirms speculations that the Japanese central bank will announce further easing in ...