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Chief economist update: Hostage to speculations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018
The Bank of Japan (BOJ) faces an uphill battle in its quest to normalise monetary policy if economic and financial market agents continue to "hear what they want to hear and see what they want to see." The yen rose to its highest level since November ...

PIMCO sells Aussie banks as correction looms

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2018
... global growth and "gently rising inflation." Exacerbating this is the wider global trend of central banks tightening monetary policy. "While fundamentals and technicals keep us invested, our assessment of valuations argues for smaller overweight positions ...

Chief economist update: The uncertainty that is Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2018
... underscore America's best of times than that tracked by the US Federal Reserve to gauge its success or otherwise of its monetary policy settings and direction - employment and inflation. The US non-farm payrolls report showed employment increased by ...

Future Fund reshuffles investment team

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2018
... and Hong Kong with AIG Financial Products and Morgan Stanley. Prior to that, Gilmore worked with both the International Monetary Fund and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. Among the investment team reshuffle, head of infrastructure and timberland Wendy ...

Chief economist update: Australia cruising at low altitude

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2018
... than the 2.5% annual growth rate recorded in the same quarter of last year. This helps explain the RBA's inaction over monetary policy over the course of 2017 and the change in expectations from two rate hikes this year to nil. To be sure, these are ...

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

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
... expected it! But perhaps not very many noticed that while it was not a cut and paste job, the message contained in the monetary policy statement of 6 March 2018 echoed that made in March (even February) last year - that of expectations of stronger growth ...

Chief economist update: The risks just got real

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2018
... week and there's certain retaliation from trading partners. You can forget the World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) rosy, glowing global growth forecasts too for the risks to their projections just became real. The World Bank's ...

Chief economist update: New Fed chief, same policy direction (but more transparent)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2018
... monitor inflation developments closely." Perhaps not word for word, but the message is the same as to the direction of monetary policy: "In the FOMC's view, further gradual increases in the federal funds rate will best promote attainment of both of our ...

Chief economist update: The key to ECB taper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 FEB 2018
... explained: "Looking ahead, we anticipate that headline inflation will resume its gradual upward adjustment, supported by our monetary policy measures. At the same time, uncertainties continue to prevail. In particular, the recent volatility in financial ...

Chief economist update: Three minutes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2018
Three out of three central banks kept monetary settings unchanged at their most recent meetings - what's more important is where the central banks think we are and where they plan to take us. The minutes of the meetings of the Reserve Bank of Australia ...