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The twenty-first night of September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2016
... whether it's by chance or by design but both the US Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan will announce their monetary policy decision on 21 September. Nothing wrong with that... except that the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker expect the ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2016
... report show that the RBA governor's constant nagging may have finally gotten through to the government (because monetary policy can only do so much) with fiscal spending adding significantly to overall second quarter growth -- government consumption ...

Negative rates can generate positive returns

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2016
... investment portfolio in fixed income with the view it diversifies against equities and prepares for ongoing global monetary policy shifts. The fund's head of investment strategy, Damian Lillicrap, said QSuper is no longer willing to hold the countries ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2016
... consumer confidence The Brits appear to have shaken off their Brexit woes (for now?) and that the BOE's recent monetary policy easing had been timely and effective. The GfK consumer confidence index improved to minus 7 in August from -12 in the previous ...

Yellen speaks Fedspeak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2016
... many words (3,555 words including sub-headings to be exact) in her prepared remarks at the "Designing Resilient Monetary Policy Frameworks for the Future" symposium at the Hole. I started a joke... But of these 3,555 words, someone latched onto a mere ...

Read the data not the Fed's lips

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2016
... updates on employment and inflation and consumer and business spending and growth - and what that implies for monetary policy. Kill me now! That's what I would say if I were the Fed chairman and my course of action is hugely dependent on data that disappoints ...

Combination of fiscal and monetary policy essential for Japan

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2016
Japan must look to a combination of fiscal and monetary policy if it wishes to achieve the structural reform as set out in the third arrow of Abenomics, according to QIC Shocking global markets with the announcement of negative cash rates in late January ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2016
... effective exchange rate remains 3.0% lower). Expect further gains in retail spending as the Bank of England's 2 August monetary policy easing works its way into the economy.

Investors missing healthy returns amid bond fears

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2016
... return of quantitative easing in the UK in the wake of the Brexit vote and the Bank of Japan's review of its own monetary policy mean a case can be made for bond prices rising further still. "The bull case for global fixed income might see a collapse ...

Central bank Olympics - the race is on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2016
... European Central Bank (ECB) opted not to start running when at its governing council meeting on 21 July, it left monetary policy unchanged - refinancing rate at 0; deposit rate at minus 0.4%; marginal lending facility at 0.25%; monthly asset purchases ...