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Japan does a double double-dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2015
... to recover moderately and that low inflation was due to the decline in energy prices month after month in its monetary policy statements, it could not will sustained growth and inflation. At its October meeting - where it kept interest rates unchanged ...

Pick a number

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2015
... rate apropos to the prevailing Australian macro setting. Australia, after all, is one of the few economies where monetary policy has not been corrupted by "non-conventional" policies to date... so the rule should still work. This from Wikipedia: "In ...

Rusting still

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2015
... 6.9% in the first quarter of 2015 from 7.4% last year. While the People's Bank of China (PBOC) has again eased monetary policy - it lowered the benchmark one-year lending rate by 25 bps to 4.35%; the deposit rate down by 25 bps to 1.5% (the lowest on ...

Six point five is PM Li's new like

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2015
... know premier Li gets what premier Li likes. Stay tuned (for confirmation) and oh, also for the Bank of Japan's monetary policy announcement later today.

December lift-off, yeah, sure

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2015
... than not prospect of a lift-off... and soon. Yes Virginia, there were no surprises in the Fed's decision to keep monetary policy unchanged after it concluded its 27-28 October tete-a-tete. But what was surprising was Wall Street's reaction - the Dow ...

Hotel California

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2015
... it's not a policy target. The movements in the exchange rate (over) three years were the outcome of diverging monetary policy cycles as well as divergent economic recovery paths between major jurisdictions. They were not intended, it was not an action ...

Future Fund issues return warning

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... 15%. Neal said: "We have seen significant volatility across markets during the quarter. The global impact of US monetary policy has been a source of volatility as the US Federal Reserve inches closer to starting to raise its interest rates off the zero ...

FEATURE: Investing in a world on hold

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
... the US: "The volatility will be wider than the US, it will span around the world because we have a divergence in monetary policy," Craig says. Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFSGAM) senior analyst of economic and market research, Belinda ...

Lift-off off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
... put further downward pressure on inflation in the near term." These were the words in the US Federal Reserve's monetary policy statement of September used to justify the US central bank's decision not to lift interest rates last month notwithstanding ...

NIRP before lift-off?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2015
... happened in 2013 was the start of "long, gradual tightening cycle," Mr. Kocherlakota said. Given that changes in monetary policy affect the economy with as much as a two-year lag, "the slow rate of labor-market improvement in 2015 is not all that surprising." ...