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Economics 101 is dead

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 JUL 2017
... prices. All up, RBA governor Philip Lowe is correct in saying that, "there is no longer an expectation of additional monetary easing in other major economies" but don't expect an immediate and abrupt exit as well.

Hawkish central banks? Not the BOJ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2017
... some distance to achieving 2% inflation, so it's inappropriate to say now specifically how we will exit our ultra-loose monetary policy and how that could affect the BOJ's financial health. Laying out specific simulations now would only create confusion. ...

Good goings-on in China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUL 2017
... this improved conditions both the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have lifted their China economic growth projections in their June 2017 reports. The OECD raised its GDP growth forecast ...

Data dictates immediate BOE action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2017
... acknowledged that "further increases in US interest rates are expected and there is no longer an expectation of additional monetary easing in other major economies," policy accommodation won't be withdrawn so soon as markets speculated, evidenced by ...

Australian property love affair cannot please everyone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017
... releases. However, longer-term investors who monitor credit activity will have a greater understanding of the direction of monetary policy and its consequent impact on various investment assets.

Australian end of financial year sale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017
... fingers at recent comments by the head honchos of the world's biggest central banks suggesting that the days of "abnormal" monetary policies are soon to be no more. The Fed's Janet Yellen didn't have to utter a single word about normalisation, it's on ...

Eurozone gaining momentum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2017
... securities purchased under the asset purchase programme", and just a little later on we say that "a very substantial degree of monetary accommodation is still needed."

Central Banks fail to disappoint

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 JUN 2017
... in sync with that of the financial markets. This is underscored by Factset's recent report that even the International Monetary Fund (IMF) "endorses the ECB's cautious approach". Or is it because the financial markets are wagging the central banks? Can't ...

Cloudy skies in the land of the rising sun

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2017
... that the BOJ is "re-calibrating its communications to acknowledge it's thinking about how to handle a withdrawal from monetary stimulus" makes no sense. For sure, the BOJ, like the Fed and the ECB and most other central banks engaged in non-conventional ...

Better, but not good enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUN 2017
... OECD highlighted the financial risk from elevated and rising credit growth and house prices and interest rate gaps - monetary policy divergence between the US and the Eurozone and Japan. "Closing this policy-path gap will likely engender higher financial ...