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Chief economist update: Americans who want work will find it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2018
... pre-Christmas meeting (18-19 December) is different. Here, the odds are, according to cmegroup.com, 73.6% that the US central bank will raise interest rates by 25 basis points to 2.25%-2.5%. Yes Virginia, I'm scratching my bald head too. Only 73.6% ...

Chief economist update: BOE waiting on Brexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2018
... meetings - Bank Rate at 0.75% and maintained "the stock of UK government bond purchases, financed by the issuance of central bank reserves, at £435 billion". This, despite the UK central bank maintaining its assessment of reduced slack in the economy. ...

Chief economist update: BOJ on a steady

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2018
... trillion - although the financial and economic backdrop have become a little bit more challenging for the Japanese central bank since its last meet on September 19. That time, the Nikkei-225 index was up by 4.9% (year-to-date) and the yen has weakened ...

RBA calls for more innovation

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
... the clock, this year. RBA's head of payments settlements department Greg Johnston spoke at SIBOS about what the central bank would like to see in payments next. In February, RBA launched New Payments Platform (NPP) which let consumers make fast payments ...

Chief economist update: Super Mario keeps his cool

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
The European Central Bank's (ECB) October 25 Governing Council meeting concluded with a decision that markets widely expected. The ECB left interest rates unchanged - the benchmark refinancing rate at 0%, the marginal lending facility rate at 0.25% ...

Chief economist update: China's slowing fast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2018
When the going gets tough, China's authorities get going. Fresh data that showed the Chinese economy slowed to 6.5% in the year to the September quarter shouldn't have generated big concerns - despite headlines that it is the slowest growth ...

Chief economist update: An Indian surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2018
Just when we thought the times of central bank surprises were things of the past, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) brought them back. The RBI kept interest rates unchanged - repo rate at 6.5%, reverse repo rate at 6.25% - at the conclusion of its October ...

Chief economist update: Keep one eye open on the housing market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2018
... be both, plus of course, the fact that not a single soul and his dog anticipate anything new from the Australian central bank at the conclusion of its board meeting. The RBA did not disappoint. It kept the official cash rate unchanged at the record low ...

NZ Super Fund delivers 12.4pct, braces for future

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2018
... inflation is starting to rise in some developed markets, and financial conditions are tightening with the withdrawal of central bank liquidity. While trade tensions have been escalating, the contagion into financial markets has been limited to date," ...

RBNZ on ice into 2020

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
There were some moments so far in 2018 when it perked up against the US dollar but the path of least resistance has been a decline for the New Zealand dollar. The NZ dollar has dropped by 6.8% versus the greenback (to US$0.6628) this year to date and ...