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Chief economist update: Lock in two RBA rate cuts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2019
... Australian consumer price inflation has softened... big time. There's no other option for the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to cut interest rates soon and twice. The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) consumer price index report showed ...

NPP chair breaks down rollout

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2019
... the New Payments Platform (NPP) through its rollout. McKinnon was made chair at the end of January this year. In March, the RBA revealed it had been pressuring the banks to prioritise the $1 billion infrastructure project and expressed concerns that ...

Chief economist update: Equity market rally has legs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2019
... The BOC has also changed its tune to "continues to warrant a policy interest rate that is below its neutral range"; and the RBA? Yes, it's now saying that "the next-move-is-up scenarios were more likely than the next-move-is-down scenarios"... with ...

Chief economist update: AUD misdirection

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2019
... expectations. Despite policy guidance from the Fed that it will keep interest rates on ice for the remainder of 2019 and the RBA is presently on a neutral bias, both are expected to cut interest rates this year. Perhaps, the only explanation to the AUD's ...

Chief economist update: Aussie property price falls become self-fulfilling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2019
... both sides of the Government divide should help mitigate the drag from falling property prices on the general economy. The RBA would be keenly watching developments in the fiscal space.

AMP, Griffith University support professionalism

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2019
... Brand has been appointed to research fellow at the university. She is a senior analyst for the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and received the RBA's Outstanding Achievement Award in 2016 and 2017. Brand will undertake research in the areas that impact ...

Chief economist update: Rosy assumptions a Budget surplus make

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2019
... 2018/19), household consumption was forecast to have been growing by 2.75% this year. This is a big deal and reason why the RBA considers this a major risk for the domestic economy: "The main domestic uncertainty continues to be the strength of household ...

Chief economist update: No credit to the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 APR 2019
If the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) very own Financial Aggregates report - released on March 29 - doesn't convince the board to switch from its current "neutral stance" to an interest rate cut very, very soon, by the time it does - and ...

Perpetual raising $440m for credit trust

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2019
... private debt (mainly corporate loans). The management cost is expected to be 0.88% per annum of the NTA. Target total return is RBA plus 3.25% per annum and the trust is aiming to pay monthly distributions to unitholders. The portfolio will be managed ...

Chief economist update: RBA repeats history

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2019
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) may not even need to acquiesce to mounting consensus expectations for at least one interest rate cut this year after the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) good news on the country's unemployment rate ...