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Chief economist update: China stitches it in time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2019
... the trick (the currently speculated breakthrough in the US-China trade deal will certainly help)." And if that's not enough, authoritarian China would also persuade (?) financial institutions to lend, consumers to consume, businesses to borrow, etcetera ...

Chief economist update: A question of when?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2019
... 2018/early January 2019. However, the recent resumption of the decline in inflation expectations argues that this is not enough and calls for an immediate interest rate reduction... before the yield curve goes deeper into the negative and as proved many ...

Chief economist update: Japan should raise taxes another day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2019
... the tax on consumption was raised from 5% to 8% in April 2014. On both occasions, the Japanese economy was deemed strong enough to withstand an increase in tax on spending. On both occasions a recession ensued. As such, the Japanese government debt to ...

Australian Ethical mulls Facebook divestment

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2019
... is a reasonable amount of time for them to pull down things like this. "And we do have to ask whether they're doing enough to take. We have to ask what processes they have in place and what technologies they have in place." Palmer said that this ...

Indigenous super access needs improvement

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2019
... is working with AUSTRAC on setting protocols for ATSI people identification. But she questioned if the industry is doing enough and if the work on improving identification procedures is filtering down to frontline staff. Citing Commissioner Kenneth Hayne ...

Qantas Super urges women take control of super

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2019
... retirement, new research shows. The Qantas Super CSBA Retirement Confidence Index asked people to rate their confidence in having enough money to retire comfortably out of 10. They found that overall Australians' confidence they will have enough money ...

Chief economist update: What's the RBA waiting for?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2019
... market turns down? I turned optimistic when the RBA changed its stance from tightening to neutral, hoping that it would be enough to turn sentiment around and take the A$ lower - itself an equilibrating force on the economy - but they have not? But it ...

Chief economist update: Breaking up is hard to do

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2019
... record-breaking 230 "nays" back on the 15th of January this year. She did her best, but her best still wasn't good enough. What now? Another vote of course, and this time to extend the timeline of the parting of ways between the UK and the EU from ...

New NAB chair seeks to ease shareholders

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2019
... Royal Commission's recommendations will lead to a better industry, and expects NAB to lead the change. "It will not be enough to focus on customers; we need to obsess about getting it right for them every single time," he said. NAB continues to scout ...

ASIC scolds banks over fee-for-no-service delays

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2019
... that some institutions had disputed ASIC's determination that merely offering advice customers an annual review is not enough to satisfy the requirement of an annual review stated in some service agreements. The regulator said delays were also due to ...