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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 ...

Magellan eyes 'exponential growth' from second machine age

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2016
... are some commentators who believe that the central banks will need to implement even more aggressive forms of monetary policy, such as the monetisation of government debt or a 'helicopter drop' of printed money in order to induce inflation. "If such ...

Rate cut would do little to help economy: WAM

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016
... less desirable for those investors on the hunt for yield. "All of the economies are calling that we need to ease monetary policy further to actually get inflation going. It's questionable whether you can actually do that. "In Australia, the RBA could ...

Standard Life Investments calls for more monetary easing

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2016
Standard Life Investments chief economist Jeremy Lawson has called on governments to ease monetary policy further in light of some worrying structural trends which he said were amplified by the result of the UK's referendum on EU membership. Lawson ...