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Chief economist update: Wagering on wages

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2018
... remain unchanged at a 2% rate in the fourth quarter from the third. Reading from the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) monetary policy statement after its 6 February meeting, the Australian central bank is wagering on the same: "Notwithstanding the improving ...

Chief economist update: Inflation isn't such a lonely word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2018
... course, it's because of the Fed. It's got our backs and its recent bout (and future efforts) at gradually tightening monetary policy settings is exactly to ensure that rising inflation doesn't get out of hand. The latest University of Michigan consumer ...

Chief economist update: The yen's on the up and up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2018
... Haruhiko Kuroda stressing the Japanese central bank's commitment towards maintaining its "Quantitative and Qualitative Monetary Easing (QQE) with a Negative Interest Rate" and "expanding the monetary base until the year-on-year rate of increase in the ...

Gesundheit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 FEB 2018
... reverse repo at 5.75% - when it met on the February 7 (right in the midst of the upheaval on Wall Street). In fact, one monetary policy committee member voted to increase interest rates by 25 basis points. This is because although there's no doubt about ...

Scared of inflation? Try deflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2018
... latest indications only demonstrate that the US central bank is well on its way to achieving its goal of normalising monetary policy ever since it first raised the fed funds rate from the record low 0.25% to 0.50% back in December 2015. The succeeding ...

Chief economist update: The Fed's force is with us

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2018
... defined as a 20% or more drop in US equities. Has good news (on the economy and in terms of the Fed's efforts to return monetary policy towards normality) turned bad? For sure, the rise and rise of US bond yields are giving equity investors a run for ...

Chief economist update: RBA to lift rates after 2018

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2018
... rumblings on Wall Street continue, those predicting that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) would maintain the status quo on monetary policy and keep the official cash rate at a record low of 1.5% for all of 2018 would be correct too. It kept policy ...

Chief economist update: Euro's uptrend is a downtrend risk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2018
While none expected a change in monetary policy, not a few anticipated ECB president Mario Draghi to deliver a less dovish message (at the very least) after the European Central Bank's first governing council meeting for 2018. Perhaps, the underlying ...

Consistent growth fuels Future Fund cyber fears

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2018
... positive near-term outlooks have allowed the fund to modestly increase its risk levels, citing the ongoing success of US monetary policy tightening: "The consequence of that is that we have taken a little more risk." During the period the fund increased ...

Chief economist update: RBA stuck in slow inflation lane

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2018
... Statistics' (ABS) update on domestic consumer prices showed very little "plus ca change", suggesting no "plus ca change" in RBA monetary policy as well. Australian headline inflation accelerated a tad to 1.9% in the year to the December quarter from ...