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BetaShares launches defensive ETF

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2017
... rates. "In the US, the Federal Reserve has raised interest rates twice in the past six months in the effort to return monetary policy to a more normal footing. In Australia, the last increase in the cash rate by the Reserve Bank was in November 2010 ...

Just what the doctor ordered

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2017
... European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan are trying to engineer with their own legal tenders but sans the "unconventional monetary policies" they are currently implementing. A trip down memory lane shows how the dollar-A's depreciation deflected not ...

No spend, no inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2017
In its 'Summary of Opinions at the Monetary Policy Meeting on April 26 and 27, 2017', released on the 10th of May, the BOJ no longer spoke of an economic "recovery", instead it talked about an economic "expansion" - the most optimistic the BOJ had been ...

AI to influence consumer trust: Medcraft

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2017
... important measure of how much customers and stakeholders can trust the companies they deal with, because people have placed a monetary value on that data now too." Medcraft also explained that with the rise of artificial intelligence, the issue of accountability ...

Fed trumps Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2017
... back the economic agenda from Trump. While financial markets already know the gist of the 2-3 May FOMC meeting from the monetary policy statement announced at its conclusion, the minutes of that meeting provide nothing but good tidings for America... ...

Eurozone ascending

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2017
... executive board of the European Central Bank (ECB) - recent comments are any indication, don't expect any changes in ECB monetary policy settings anytime soon. Coure told his audience at a conference at the Paris School of Economics that, "When interest ...

Three steps and yields stumble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 MAY 2017
... three on 15 March 2016, and yet US equity market indices remain at or near record highs. Maybe the Fed's "unconventional" monetary policy - and lately, Trump - has rendered this "wise old saying" obsolete. Also, the Fed's three rate hikes since December ...

No 'Plan B' for Brexit "twist and turns"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2017
... and to 1.8% (from 1.7%) in 2019 - the years when the UK and the EU are in the midst of negotiations. As noted in the Monetary Policy Statement, "In the MPC's central forecast, weaker consumption this year is largely balanced by rising net trade and investment. ...

Japan rides the virtuous cycle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAY 2017
... by the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) growing optimism over the country's economic outlook. In its 'Summary of Opinions at the Monetary Policy Meeting on April 26 and 27, 2017', released on the 10th of May, the BOJ no longer spoke of an economic "recovery", instead ...

Budget Eve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2017
... consistent with the Reserve Bank of Australia's more optimistic outlook for this land down under. When the RBA released its monetary policy decision last week - unchanged policy - governor Philip Lowe painted a pretty picture of the global and domestic ...