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Easier for as long as necessary?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2016
... Bank of China (PBOC) pause for thought of further yuan devaluation. But these present a problem for the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA). This is because the flipside of a weaker US dollar is a stronger Australian dollar. The A$/US$ rose by 0.9% to US$0.7618 ...

We've got the power and firepower (still)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2016
... towards the 2.0% target, accelerating to 1.7% in January from 1.5% in December and 1.4% in November. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) would certainly be interested in the Fed's guidance. More to the point, the RBA would want the Fed to deliver a hike ...

A "chilling" moment for the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 FEB 2016
... could just easily interpret immediate "action" as indication of panic. Watch and wait should be what the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) would be doing when its Board meets for its regular monetary policy deliberations tomorrow. Not an "expert" soul ...

Another 6-9 months under Downunder

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2016
... growth in the Australian economy in the first half of 2016 will be below trend." Recent estimates by the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Australian Federal Treasury put growth in the country's potential output at 2.75%. However, as Westpac's Chief ...

More help wanted

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2016
If anything, the continued increase in Australian job advertisements affirm the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) positive take on the domestic labour market. In its February Statement on Monetary Policy, the Australian central bank noted that, "A concentration ...

Aviva Investors appoints national account manager

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2016
... Investors Multi-Strategy (AIMS) Target Return Fund aims to deliver a return of 5% per annum above the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) base rate over any rolling three-year period by investing, via the AIMS Target Return Fund (SICAV), in a globally diversified ...

Cheers to unmet expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2016
... and the labor market strengthens further." Australia is already there. Core inflation is within the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) 2%-3% target band. The trimmed mean inflation measure is up 2.1% in the December quarter and the weighted median's at ...

RBA Gov on Fed lift-off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015
... still uncertain of its ramifications - immediate and longer term. Not even the good governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), Glenn Stevens, it seems. In his regular end-of-year tete-a-tete with the Australian Financial Review (AFR), Gov Glenn ...

Colonial First State appoints new alternatives manager

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2015
... markets. Tully added the investment objective of the portfolio is to produce a return that exceeds the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) cash rate. "The allocation to Acadian's defensive income strategy in the defensive alternatives portfolio uses long ...

December moves

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2015
... and this December would be one of the most exciting months this year. It's as certain as sure that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) would remain on hold. Gov Glenn already said so himself. "We should just chill out, come back and see what the data ...