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Stagflation is real in Brazil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
... since September 2010. The central bank's concern over the persistence of rising consumer prices is evident in its monetary policy action - it has jacked up its target SELIC rate nine times from 7.25% in April 2013 to 11.0% in April this year (where it ...

Heads up to where Wall Street's heading

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2014
... and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade? And how do we factor that assessment into monetary policy?" Then again, Wall Street continued to climb over the next four years after he blurted out those words at the American Enterprise ...

RBA to business: release the animal in you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
... Should Worry the Fed" where Bill wrote that: "Folks in "The Lucky Country' have long been blessed with top-notch monetary policy makers. There has been no recession on the watch of Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Glenn Stevens or under his predecessor ...

Because I'm happy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
... to intensify preparatory work related to outright purchases in the ABS market to enhance the functioning of the monetary policy transmission mechanism." Wall Street's happy - S&P 500 up 0.7% to a two-week high - for the bad US retail sales report (released ...

China's winning

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
... People's Bank of China's (PBOC) target of 3.5%. This would give the Chinese central bank plenty of scope to ease monetary policy if necessary to achieve Premier Li Keqiang's 7.5% economic growth target. Not that the economy needs it, but just in case. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
... points at 5,426. Locally, in economic news on Friday, the Reserve Bank of Australia releases its Statement on Monetary Policy and the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases June housing finance figures. The National Small Business Summit is on in Melbourne. ...

All about the slack

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... enough to withstand the first interest rate hike which it has kept at a record low 0.5% since March 2009. The monetary policy council (MPC) would be reassessing if continuing strong growth momentum is closing the slack in the economy - recently estimated ...

Not that time yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014
... to intensify preparatory work related to outright purchases in the ABS market to enhance the functioning of the monetary policy transmission mechanism." These were the words that came out of the European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi's lips ...

Punishing Putin (harder)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
... watch' basket until the next set of sanctions, perhaps as soon as tonight when the Fed delivers its announcement on monetary policy.

Wall Street snubs the IMF

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2014
... rise by just 1.6% this year and 1.7% the next. What do we get when we get benign inflation? We get accommodative monetary policy for longer, that's what we get.