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Good news or bad news?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2017
... missing expectations for a 1.8% increase. This is below the PBOC's 2017 inflation target of 3.0% giving the Chinese central bank breathing room in terms of monetary policy. Surely, the PBOC wouldn't want to raise interest rates simultaneous with the ...

America is full

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2017
There is nothing in the November US labour numbers to stop the Fed from delivering its "promised" third rate hike finale for 2017 this week. US employment increased by 228K in November following a 244K gain in October. This is greater than market expectations ...

A case for faster wages growth (or not)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2017
... Australia (RBA) didn't disappoint market expectations when it conducted its last board meeting for 2017. The Australian central bank kept the official cash rate where it had been since August 2016, at a record low 1.5%. The December statement on monetary ...

Iron ore's ups and downs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2017
... Australian Financial Review's (AFR) headline, "Iron ore extends rally, fresh bull market beckons" with the Australian central bank's expectations on the direction of iron ore prices. The minutes of the RBA's 5 September Board meeting revealed members' ...

The price is not right

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2017
... move that's widely expected and pencilled in that economic and financial agents would throw a tantrum if the US central bank decides not to proceed... and as I ranted in yesterday's piece, even the likelihood of a 50 bps increase has risen to ...

ARCO Investment Management launches new strategy

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2017
ARCO Investment Management is responding to investor demand with a new, daily-priced absolute return offer. Building on the strong performance of its flagship absolute return strategy, ARCO has introduced the daily-priced ARCO Absolute Return Fund for ...

Less liquidity to lessen risk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2017
Fresh data out of China suggests that the central government and the central bank's efforts to reduce liquidity in the system are starting to have an impact. China's M2 money supply went up by 8.8% in the year to October after rising by 9.2% in the ...

Oil's gift to central bankers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 NOV 2017
Only one word comes to mind when the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is mentioned, and that is oil - for it has plenty of it. According to Investopedia, "The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is often cited as the world's largest oil producer. The country produces 13.24% ...

Changed RBA rate expectations?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2017
... (BOE) all delivered as expected but not without help from the repeated and reiterated "forward guidance" from the central bank chiefs and their henchmen months, weeks and days before. So too was the well-telegraphed US President Donald Trump's nomination ...

BOE does what it said it would do

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2017
... announcement marks the first time in more than a decade that the BOE raised its key overnight benchmark rate. The UK central bank last moved interest rates higher on the 5th of July 2007, taking the Bank Rate up from 5.50% to 5.75%, before steadily cutting ...