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Future Fund expected to grow to $200bn

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 31 AUG 2017
The Future Fund expects to grow to more than $200 billion over the next decade, enough to cover all unfunded superannuation liabilities of the Commonwealth though the whole of this century. Results for 2016-17 released this morning show the $133 billion ...

ECB disengages from currency war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2017
... US dollar so far this year - more than the A$ (up 9.4%), the NZ$ (up 5.4%) and the rupee (5.9%). Yet, the European Central Bank (ECB) and its president Mario Draghi have so far been conspicuous in not voicing out their trepidation over the euro's sharp ...

Trump and Kim go ballistic

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2017
I'll see your "fire and fury" and raise you Guam. Yes Virginia, that's Trump and Kim going ballistic once again as they play high stakes ICBM poker. Who will be the first to blink and fold? From what we already know of each players' character and temperament ...

Inflation: Cost-pushed and demand-pulled

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2017
... higher, there also wouldn't be sufficient demand to pull consumer prices up. A dynamic not lost on the Australian central bank. In its August 'Statement on Monetary Policy', the RBA stated: "expectations for low real wage growth remain a key downside ...

No follow through

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 AUG 2017
... 2008-2013, now Bank of England (BOE) governor Mark Carney didn't follow through on the remarks he made at the European Central Bank Forum in Portugal that, "Some removal of monetary stimulus is likely to become necessary if the trade-off facing the MPC ...

RBI succumbs to low-flation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2017
... it that prompted the RBI to raise the repo rate by 25 bps to 6% at its April 2017 policy meeting. That time, the central bank lifted its inflation forecasts to 4.5% in the first half of 2017 (from 4%) and 5% in the second half of the year (from 4.5%) ...

Powered by low-flation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 JUL 2017
Wall Street's on a tear with all of the equity market's benchmark indices - S&P 500; Dow Jones; Nasdaq; Russell 2000 - hitting record highs last week. The most proximate cause is, of course, the strong June quarter earnings results. According to Factset ...

Cheaper imports

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2017
It got less press than the June quarter CPI report - which showed inflation in Australia remained below the RBA's target in the June quarter - but the Australian bank governor Philip Lowe's address to the Anika Foundation luncheon in Sydney was held ...

Low-flation to lower-flation?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUL 2017
... to do one more rate hike this year and announce the unwinding its balance sheet (potentially in September), the US central bank's more dovish tone reversed the Australian dollar's direction, sending it back up above US$0.80 overnight. The Fed's change ...

Inflation matters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUL 2017
... core inflation rate - 2.4% in June - had been over the target since April. This justifies expectations that the UK central bank should start raising interest rates now and quick to alleviate downward pressure on the pound and upward pressure on prices. ...