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Chief economist update: Crude oil to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2019
... already prompted a change of stance at the Fed (a pause?); a cut in the reserve requirement ratio - and promises of more monetary and fiscal stimuli - in China; and expectations that the central banks of the Eurozone and Japan would keep their respective ...

Chief economist update: The curse of Japan's consumption tax hike

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2019
... markets were awash with speculation the Bank of Japan (BOJ) would follow the Fed's lead and start implementing a monetary policy exit strategy. Speculations started to gain prominence as early as January 2018, when the Japanese central bank "reduced ...

Chief economist update: Safe as burning houses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2019
... in the year to December - led by an 8.9% drop in Sydney and a 7% fall in Melbourne. Still, in its November 2018 'Monetary Policy Statement', the RBA remained relatively sanguine about it. "The easing of housing prices in Sydney and Melbourne ...

Fed's pause becomes the ECB's problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
... and flexible". These are the two words the US Federal Reserve has us mulling over with regards to the conduct of its monetary policy over the course of 2019. How patient and flexible? The CME FedWatch Tool puts the probability of the fed funds rate remaining ...

Fed steady with a slight chance of a rate cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
... the longer-run neutral interest rate". All well and good but where to now brown cow? "With regard to the outlook for monetary policy beyond this meeting... participants expressed that recent developments, including the volatility in financial markets ...

Why the RBA has reason to cut rates in 2019

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2019
... and cut rates. First, some global context. US Federal Reserve has hinted that it will be more dovish with regards to monetary policy from gradual and gentle rate hikes to using "...all of its tools to support the economy should that be appropriate to ...

Chief economist update: The clown in the White House

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 DEC 2018
... persists with his tariffs and war on trade against the world, The Fed could instead postpone its move towards normalising monetary policy.

Bonds reward equity investors seeking refuge

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 DEC 2018
... and evolution of the economy into one indicator. The authors found that a change in the yield-curve slope, thanks to monetary policy easing measured by real-interest rates and its expected movement, is associated with an increase in the probability of ...

Chief economist update: ECB bids farewell to QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2018
... interest rates, and in any case for as long as necessary to maintain favourable liquidity conditions and an ample degree of monetary accommodation." Flashback - that "date when it starts raising the key ECB interest rates" is speculated to be sometime ...

Future Fund investment specialist joins NZ Super

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2018
... senior strategy roles at AIG Financial Products and Morgan Stanley. Prior to that, he worked with both the International Monetary Fund and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. In March, the Future Fund made several changes to its leadership team in an effort ...