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Bonds reward equity investors seeking refuge

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 DEC 2018
... to be intimating that economic conditions will be weaker in the longer run. This is when inflation might be lower, and the RBA loosens its grip on monetary policy settings, he explained. "Evidence would suggest that inverse yield curves call more recessions ...

Chief economist update: Aussie property market drop becoming self-fulfilling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2018
We got chills, they're multiplying... How could something so good turn out to be so bad? It was all very good just as 2017 was turning into 2018... so good, that financial markets were pencilling in exit strategies from the world's major economies ...

Chief economist update: A prelude to a rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2018
Could it be? Could it be that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is now pondering the likelihood that the next move in interest rates is down rather than up? In early June this year, I put forth a thesis that long stretches of steady interest rates ...

Chief economist update: Bottom line slows down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2018
... first. The All Ordinaries positive correlation (and its lead) with company profits isn't one for optimism and one that the RBA should take note.

Chief economist update: RBA more likely to cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2018
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) painted an optimistic picture of the global and domestic economies when it held its policy meeting last month (6 November) before concluding that "...the stance of monetary policy unchanged at this meeting would be ...

Chief economist update: Predictions allude to frozen RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2018
... support take their toll." But closer to home, the OECD's GDP growth forecasts for Australia is at odds with that of the RBA. Although the OECD prefaces its report on Australia with, "Robust economic growth is set to continue", the accompanying table ...

Special Report: Hitting new ETF goals

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... sensitive to a change in interest rates, he says. Interest rates haven't moved since August 2016. Economists who forecast RBA would lift rates at least once by year-end have only two board meetings left to see if their predictions would materialise. ...

Future Fund appoints to board

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2018
... joining the Future Fund's board of guardians, effective today. Fraser previously sat on the boards of Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and Australian Council of Financial Regulators. He was also a secretary to the Department of Treasury for three and ...

ALP victory to have meaningful impact: Daintree

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2018
... given the current climate to take long positions in Australian interest rates, adding a Labor victory would likely push the RBA from 2019 to 2020, anchoring the short end of the Australian yield curve. "We think to some extent right now bonds have come ...

Chief economist update: As safe as Australian houses?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2018
... correction in the housing market remains orderly but it also raises doubt with regards to the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) statement that the next move in interest rates will likely be up. Although that's still within the realms of the possible ...