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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 ...

Institutional investors on the march in fixed income

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2018
... executive Greater China, Southeast Asia and Korea, Terry Pan said: "With improving market fundamentals and tightening monetary policies, the study revealed that fixed income investors in Asia Pacific tend to allocate to solutions that can either hedge ...

Advice firm enters insurance market

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2018
... offering will be ultimately more cost-effective, as well as better aligned to client needs. "The value over time from a monetary perspective can be significant. Removing commission out of a policy reduces a clients' premium by up to 30% for the life ...

Chief economist update: Red light on greenback

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2018
... global upswing which are prompting investors to reduce their allocations to the US and into other economies; shifting monetary policy expectations in Japan and the Eurozone (although still denied by officials) as against the Fed's telegraphed gradual ...