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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 ...

Industry dubious about one regulatory body: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2018
... division of the BOE; and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Singapore on the other hand is governed by one regulator - the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). The Royal Commission highlighted several shortcomings in how the two bodies police the financial ...

Chief economist update: A prelude to a rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2018
... in Sydney yesterday, Debelle said: "The Reserve Bank has repeatedly said that our expectation is that the next move in monetary policy is more likely up than down, though it is some way off. But should that turn out not to be the case, there is still ...

Will Aussie equities overcome 2019 challenges?

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2018
... outlook, including falling house prices locally, political risks the U.S.-China trade conflict and tightening global monetary policies," Jenneke said. Jenneke - who runs the firm's Australian Equity Strategy Fund - said he favours structural growth companies ...

Chief economist update: RBA more likely to cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2018
... 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 consistent with sustainable growth in the economy and achieving the inflation target ...

Chief economist update: Is TLTRO III coming?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2018
... and stimulate bank lending to the real economy. The TLTROs, therefore, reinforce the ECB's current accommodative monetary policy stance and strengthen the transmission of monetary policy by further incentivising bank lending to the real economy." ...

Chief economist update: Where are the BOJ exit speculators now?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2018
... to taper speculations would instead ensure that the BOJ would continue with its policy "Quantitative and Qualitative Monetary Easing (QQE) with a Negative Interest Rate" and "expanding the monetary base until the year-on-year rate of increase in the ...