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Holding pattern

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
... a-changin'. This, at least, could be gleaned from two central banks that conducted their regular tete-a-tete on monetary policy so far this week. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept money things the same - as expected - as it continues to see the ...

Data doesn't justify "recession" headlines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2015
... business credit's negative growth between 2009 and 2011? Did we get a recession back then? The transmission of monetary policy finally transmitting? Businesses finally drinking the water RBA gov Glenn led them? This positive report is consistent with ...

Comparative advantage

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2015
... pace of tightening thereafter". Or did she? "But if the economy surprises us, our judgments about appropriate monetary policy will change." The way the world economy and financial markets is "surprising us" this very moment, gives more credence to Bank ...

Confused and confounded

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2015
... to do. Wall Street fell on the day - 18 September -- the Fed announced that it is maintaining the status quo on monetary policy. Sure, the Street was disappointed, hence the adverse reaction. The American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) even ...

Fed will lift later this year if...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015
... already rung even before US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen uttered her first word on "Inflation Dynamics and Monetary Policy" at the At the Philip Gamble Memorial Lecture, University of Massachusetts, overnight. Then again, Wall Street didn't miss ...

Speculation springs eternal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
... that Janet and Co decided to err on the side of caution. For what good would it do to take the first step into monetary policy normalisation now if it causes the financial markets and the US economy to take two or three steps back in the process? Or ...

The moment of truth cometh

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
... crunching the numbers as I type to give an intelligent and convincing rationale for "aye" or "nay" vote come their monetary policy deliberations on 16-17 September. It's crunch time for financial markets too, given the reaction they've displayed so far ...

VicSuper awards $100m corporate bonds mandate

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2015
... investment officer Oscar Fabian said. "However uncertainty surrounds the timing and extent of these changes to monetary policy." He noted that Australian loans portfolios "significantly reduce interest rate duration risk (i.e. the negative impact on ...

China stimulates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
... stimulus measures - any stimulus measure - just turned into reality. Yes folks, Beijing's topping up last month's monetary policy easing - lowered interest rate and RRR - with expansionary fiscal policies. According to Xinhua News Agency - central command's ...

Lead us not into a recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... this is and what Gov Glenn had been talking about for a long while now. And this is that there are limits to what monetary policy could achieve - it's now pushing on a string -- and therefore... go Keynesian! Yes, that great guy, the British economist ...