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Housing market set to flat line not crash: QIC

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2016
... cycle moves from the banks in terms of the lending rates. So those factors, we think, are going to contribute to monetary policy and further easing," said Miall. Concluding Miall said: "We recognise that housing has had a big run up, housing affordability ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2016
... rose to 11.8% from 11.6 in February. Eurozone household credit The European Central Bank's (ECB) accommodative monetary policy appears to be having their intended effect, lifting credit to households and non-financial companies. Loans to households grew ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2016
... sanctions will continue to batter Moscow's economic fortunes. Worse, the Bank of Russia has no room to provide monetary policy accommodation because it deems that "inflation risks remain high". The Russian central bank kept interest rates unchanged at ...

Easier for as long as necessary?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2016
... and their boards met to discuss money policy. While the Bank of Japan (BOJ) and the Bank of England (BOE) kept monetary policy unchanged - and despite at differing stages in their economic cycles - both offered soothing words. The BOJ could "decide to ...

Data says not yet but what would Janet say?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2016
... markets as focus turned to the Fed's FOMC meeting which started overnight. While the Fed is not expected to alter monetary policy at all at this month's meeting, there's a niggling sense of anticipation of what Janet's forward guidance would contain ...

No tears for China's disappointing data

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2016
... will meet its economic growth target over the next five years (this again is 6.5%-7.0%). And that, "Excessive monetary policy stimulus isn't necessary to achieve the target... If there isn't any big economic or financial turmoil, we'll keep prudent monetary ...

Four bazookas and a phrase

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2016
... drop in the euro immediately following the ECB's announcement pooh-pooh recent concerns over the effectiveness of monetary policy (it worked). And the subsequent reversal? Well, if anyone bothered to read Mario's full statement on the matter, it made ...

RBNZ cuts rates, biased towards further easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2016
... that the New Zealand central bank will keep interest rates unchanged after this morning's board meeting. In its monetary policy statement, the RBNZ explained its decision as prompted by the deterioration in the global outlook since December, increased ...

With pretty numbers like these, who needs a rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2016
... improvement in trade deficit. As I've ranted many, many times before... the A$ depreciation is a 'de facto' easing in monetary policy and it's working. The problem now is that Australia's good tidings are sending the A$ back up again. This is compounded ...

Another standout economic performance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2016
... growth in the economy, with inflation close to target. The Board therefore decided that the current setting of monetary policy remained appropriate."