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Chief economist update: The power of one

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2019
... I'm sticking my neck for just one rate CUT... in June. The depreciation of the Australian dollar since the change in RBA betting/hint will go a long way towards shielding Australia against the downdraft of slowing global growth... just as it did ...

Chief economist update: A tariff for a tariff

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2019
... in 10-year US bond yields in recent days has begun to re-flatten the yield curve. So much so that financial markets are betting that steady interest rates wouldn't be enough given recent developments in the Sino-US trade stoush and the financial ...

Chief economist update: Nerves of steel

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2019
... estimates show that he's on the right side of being right. The seasonally adjusted estimates might be good for trading (betting) from one month to another but they don't offer much in terms of direction. Try interpolating the direction of the ...

Labour and housing drive rate sentiment

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2019
... and slimmer dividends," he says. Meanwhile, high-profile advice firm Pitcher Partners and Janus Henderson Investors are betting on the RBA holding its position. Frank Uhlenbruch, an investment strategist on Janus Henderson's Australian fixed income ...

Chief economist update: RBA more likely to cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2018
... the RBA has explicitly stated that the next move in rates would likely be up rather than down and financial markets are betting on the same (whenever that may be), the mounting challenges to the global and domestic economies are pointing in the opposite ...

Chief economist update: The money is one Fed rate hike next year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2018
... three). Even the odds for two rate hikes for 2019 have diminished to 24.4% from 33.2% a month earlier. Of course, these betting could change as the weeks and months progress "depending on the data". I don't think anyone and his uncle would complain ...

AI ramping up but legal risks remain

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
Financial services companies are betting on artificial intelligence (AI) more than ever, but remain sceptic of compliance and legal risks of the technology, according to a new Baker McKenzie report. Baker McKenzie surveyed 355 financial services leaders ...

Chief economist update: Americans who want work will find it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2018
... the probability of the Fed keeping the fed funds rate at 2-2.25% at 92.8% - almost a sure "no change" thing. However, betting on the pre-Christmas meeting (18-19 December) is different. Here, the odds are, according to cmegroup.com, 73.6% that the US ...

Chief economist update: Betting on down rather than up?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2018
... lower compared to the US$0.7112 it fetched at the start of 2018. The $NZ's drop suggests that the currency markets are betting that the next move in the OCR could be down rather than up. This is because as printed in the August Monetary Policy Statement ...

Bitcoin bubble will burst in 2018: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2018
... The latest Financial Standard spot poll result sees an end to the bitcoin bubble in 2018. About 40% of respondents are betting the days of the bitcoin phenomenon are numbered, while 29% predict Australia will lift interest rates by 25 percentage points. ...