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Chief economist update: No target sign on India's back

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 APR 2018
... in the domestic economy more than shackled by the on-going trade war uncertainty. So much so, that when the Indian central bank met on 5 April and kept monetary policy settings unchanged - repo rate unchanged at 6.0%; reverse repo rate at 5.75%; and ...

Chief economist update: Another five minutes of retail sunshine?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018
... Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released its latest report on retail spending and...it was good. The Australian central bank kept the official cash rate unchanged at 1.5% that day with the policy statement underscoring its optimism over the country's ...

Chief economist update: The euro's doing Trump's work in the Eurozone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2018
... how to react and mitigate the uncertainty that is Trump on their respective economies. Case in point: the European Central Bank. Speaking before the Watchers XIX Conference on the 14 March - before Trump's tariffs took effect and before Trump granted ...

Chief economist update: Home cooling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2018
... to end-February. The year-on-year growth rate has slowed some more to 1.1% as at the 20th of March. The Australian central bank would definitely welcome this orderly slowdown in property price growth, particularly in terms of its efforts to lessen financial ...

Chief economist update: Plotting the dots

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2018
... taking the fed funds rate to 1.5%-1.75% - CME FedWatch Tool has the probability of a rate hike at 94.4% - when the US central bank concludes its two-day FOMC meeting on 21 March. But perhaps, the right statement is not that markets are widely expecting ...

Chief economist update: Hostage to speculations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018
... positive and strengthening growth in the domestic economy should, in time, lift measured inflation towards the Japanese central bank's 2% inflation target. This is exactly what financial markets and economists are prognosticating -- the same chain of ...

PIMCO sells Aussie banks as correction looms

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2018
PIMCO is winding down its exposure to Australian banks and certain real estate investment trusts as risks increase in these investments. In an outlook report, PIMCO portfolio manager Aaditya Thakur and credit research analyst John Dwyer said that while ...

Chief economist update: Australia cruising at low altitude

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2018
... on hold through to end-2018 with the potential for more government spending - read, tax cuts - as government and central bank try to shift economic growth into a higher gear. If you want to read further, below is a snippet from the Financial Standard ...

Chief economist update: Next move in rates will likely be up, but it's not certain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
... Guide: Making sense of key economic data These were reasons enough for both the ANZ and NAB to expect the Australian central bank to lift the official cash rate twice this year. In September 2017, the AFR printed that the ANZ "forecast the cash rate ...

Insto mandate seeds Aviva fund launch

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
... first year for a long time where there is going to be net supply from governments "that's not totally knocked up by central bank buying through their QE programs." He adds the "marginal investor" has also played a role where bond prices have been driven ...