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Chief economist update: Should have sold in May and gone away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2018
... from 50% to 25%. Lastly, not only is fiscal policy being loosened but monetary policy remains accommodative with the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) not expected to raise interest rates until sometime next year. But while the Australian domestic narrative ...

Industry fund increases life insurance engagement

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAY 2018
... that actually deliver value to customers because that's really important," she says. MLC Life has appointed former Reserve Bank of Australia chief information officer Sarv Girn to the role of chief innovation and transformation officer to spearhead the ...

Chief economist update: Wisdom of the crowd

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2018
... What's wrong with that? A strengthening US economy (or any economy for that matter) demands higher interest rates. As Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Governor, Philip Lowe, told his audience at the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce (WA) in Perth ...

Chief economist update: New RBNZ Governor maintains old policy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2018
... the 53rd in the world with 2016 GDP estimated at US$185 billion - which is roughly 1/100th the size of the US. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand's policy meeting of 10 May 2018 might be Governor Adrian Orr's first - he assumed office on March 27 ...

Chief economist update: A$ falls to the occasion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2018
... Australia sans a single bullet shot - a cut in in interest rates or QE - to get the same result. Only yesterday, when the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) met and decided to keep the official cash rate unchanged at 1.5%, it noted in its statement that ...

RBA names new chief information officer

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
The Reserve Bank of Australia has appointed a new chief information officer. Gayan Benedict has been serving as the RBA's deputy head, technology services since 2013. Before that, he was senior manager, department of information technology. Prior to ...

Chief economist update: Inflation remains in the slow lane

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2018
... the end of the June quarter this year, it still falls short of the central bank's target. But what really is the Reserve Bank of Australia's target? We know the RBA's target range: 2%-3.0% inflation rate. Is it when "core inflation" reaches 2.0% that ...

Chief economist update: Australian workers, don't expect a pay rise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018
... part-time jobs rose by 24,700 in March after dropping by 26,300 in February. Heads or tails? Given its importance to the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) monetary policy decision - it's half of the central bank's dual mandate (inflation and employment ...

Chief economist update: The colour of Beige

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2018
... numbers and stats but instead anecdotal evidence on the state of the US economy. They are compiled by the Federal Reserve Bank's in each of 12 Federal Districts and is published approximately two weeks before the Fed's FOMC meeting. Speculators speculating ...

Chief economist update: RBA certain to raise interest rates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2018
Speculate no further, "the next move in the cash rate will be up, not down." Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Governor Philip Lowe cannot be more explicit about monetary policy direction than this when he addressed the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce ...