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Chief economist update: The path of monetary policy according to Lowe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2019
... of Australia's (RBA) decision to cut the official cash rate to a fresh record low of 1.25% takes the country's monetary policy into uncharted waters. More uncharted it would be if JP Morgan's prediction that rates will drop to as low as 0.5% ...

Chief economist update: ECB exit proves premature

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2019
... related to slow progress in addressing structural issues. Like other major world central banks, the ECB wants to bring back monetary policy towards normality. But perhaps, it was a little too soon when it ended its â,¬2.6 trillion asset purchase programme ...

Chief economist update: Like Britney Spears, Financial Standard's done it again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2019
... on the May 21. "Putting these various elements together, our central scenario - as outlined in our recent Statement on Monetary Policy - is for the Australian economy to grow by 23/4 per cent over both 2019 and 2020... It is worth pointing out that when ...

Chief economist update: RBA to take rates to fresh record low

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2019
... rates, potentially at its June 4 meeting. The transcript of Lowe's speech - titled 'The Economic Outlook and Monetary Policy' - delivered to the Economic Society of Australia on May 21 concluded with a reference to the May board meeting and ...

Chief economist update: Devilish details

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2019
... still a month away, but when the policy board of the Bank of Japan (BOJ) meets to assess the state of the economy and its monetary policy response on 19-20 June, it could claim the economy is progressing as printed at its meeting in April. "Japan's ...

Industry responds to election outcome

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2019
... impact for company profits is the fragile state of economy, global risks (elevated trade tensions and China slowdown), monetary policy and the sluggish housing market which will be more impactful on economic growth and profit growth over the long term." ...

Chief economist update: Fairy tales can come true

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2019
... bigger surplus in the following year. Liberium's bullish iron ore forecast is based on the shift towards a more dovish monetary policy and expectations that the trade war escalation between the US and China would prompt greater stimulative policy ...

Chief economist update: Japan becomes collateral damage in US-China trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2019
... it's year-to-date depreciation has turned into a 0.4% appreciation. The last time the Bank of Japan (BOJ) held its monetary policy meeting and decided to keep policy as they were on the April 25, the yen was trading at ¥111.59/US$, down 1.7% from ...

Chief economist update: The (trade) war is back on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2019
... to support and stabilise the economy. According to news and intelligence provider MNI, Sun Guofeng - head of the PBOC monetary policy department - declared: "The central bank will make good use of structural tools, including targeted medium-term lending ...

Chief economist update: Same challenges, differing reactions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2019
... (RBNZ) Governor Adrian Orr verbally delivered the news that: "The Official Cash Rate (OCR) has been reduced to 1.5%." "The Monetary Policy Committee decided a lower OCR is necessary to support the outlook for employment and inflation consistent with ...