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Chief economist update: RBA heading to zero

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2019
... market on the same day the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) held its August board meeting. As expected, the RBA kept interest rates on hold at 1% following its back-to-back 25 bps interest rate cuts in June and July. The re-escalation of the trade war ...

Chief economist update: Look out below

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2019
... there's limited scope for monetary policy stimulation with the currently prevailing low, zero, and even negative interest rates. What's more chilling is that the US-China trade war has now sparked a mini-trade war between Japan and South Korea ...

Boutique manager hires investment banking expert

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2019
... MCP, having recently worked at Westpac and NAB respectively. Managing partner Andrew Lockhart commented: "As lower interest rates weigh on yields, the listed and unlisted funds we offer provide attractive options for investors seeking to add alternative ...

RBA in no rush to lift cash rate

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2019
... inflation rate to the target of two to three per cent. "It is highly unlikely that we will be contemplating higher interest rates until we are confident that inflation will return to around the midpoint of the target range," Lowe said. He indicated the ...

Buy time ahead for Aussie equities: Tribeca

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2019
... second-most expensive equities market (after the NASDAQ), Australian equities are expected to be held up by lower interest rates, stabilisation of housing prices, tax cuts, political stability and better relative yield proposition, Liu said. "[We] should ...

Chief economist update: A case for optimism

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2019
With a buoyant stock market, tax cuts, lower interest rates and a recovering housing market, one would think all Australians should have every reason to dance on the streets. Australians, all, should be dancing on the streets to Jimmy Cliff's classic ...

Chief economist update: Australia needs a cheaper A$

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2019
... market. Sure, it was great news for the US economy but... it also eased growing expectations the Fed would cut interest rates by 50 bps from the current 2.25%-2.5% as early as its July FOMC meeting to just a 25bps reduction. The Reserve Bank of Australia ...

Chief economist update: BOE flips tightening bias to easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2019
... odds for a Fed rate cut this month. The CME FedWatch Tool puts the probability that the US central bank will cut interest rates by 25 bps to 2%-2.25% at the conclusion of its July FOMC meeting at 95.1%. This is backed-up by the Fed's semi-annual ...

HUB24 defends cash accounts

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2019
... clients and the fee example reference in the article was "not representative of the administration fees paid and interest rates received for the majority of our clients". It maintains that all of its clients "are receiving a positive interest rate on ...

Chief economist update: Currency manipulators beware

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2019
... trading partners is consistent with his view (and criticism) that the US Federal Reserve should have been cutting interest rates instead of raising them when it did. Certainly, it would put downward pressure on the US dollar and, coupled with his increased ...