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Chief economist update: Trade war and peace

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2018
... changed to reflect "Fed participants" expectations of two (instead of one) more rate hike this year. The European Central Bank (ECB)'s kept policy unchanged at its June meeting, also as expected. However, it announced it's halving its net asset ...

Chief economist update: ECB cannot be any clearer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2018
... Walt Whitman Well its "nearly" done but let's not quibble about semantics. The revelations made by the European Central Bank (ECB) after its 14 June powwow shows the Governing Council believes that while they have yet to reach their final destination ...

Chief economist update: "Quitaly"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2018
... for 7.5%. The extent of financial market fears over Italy is best captured in the following two charts: European Central Bank (ECB) president Mario Draghi succeeded in calming nerves over Grexit with his "whatever it takes" policy. Draghi might have ...

Chief economist update: Italy and Spain an emerging ECB problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2018
Geo-politics remain the talk of the financial markets as Trump's rolling circus again came to the fore with his flip-flop-flip over the US-North Korean summit - just a day after Trump cancelled the summit, he declared it back on again. Make what ...

Chief economist update: A US dollar story

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2018
... Japan (BOJ) recently removing its target time-frame for the achievement of its 2% inflation target and the European Central Bank (ECB) faced with renewed inflation weakness - headline CPI inflation slowed to 1.2% in the year to April from 1.3% in the ...

Chief economist update: A$ falls to the occasion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2018
... these "headwinds" can blow stronger and take the A$ down some more. If so, thank you very much! While the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan struggle to keep their respective currency's exchange rate low, the market is doing it for Australia ...

Chief economist update: Prudence, patience and persistence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
The European Central Bank's (ECB) 26 April Governing Council meeting produced unchanged monetary policy settings yet again, marking the 26th month of inaction. The eurozone's interest rates haven't changed - repo rate at 0.0%; deposit facility at -0.40% ...

Chief economist update: The euro's doing Trump's work in the Eurozone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2018
... how to react and mitigate the uncertainty that is Trump on their respective economies. Case in point: the European Central Bank. Speaking before the Watchers XIX Conference on the 14 March - before Trump's tariffs took effect and before Trump granted ...

Chief economist update: Three minutes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2018
... and where they plan to take us. The minutes of the meetings of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), the European Central Bank (ECB) and the US Federal Reserve (Fed) were released last week. Despite their economies operating at different points in the ...

Chief economist update: Euro's uptrend is a downtrend risk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2018
... few anticipated ECB president Mario Draghi to deliver a less dovish message (at the very least) after the European Central Bank's first governing council meeting for 2018. Perhaps, the underlying reason for investors' increased appetite for the euro. ...