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Chief economist update: The Goldilocks rate of interest

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2018
... effects of the recent changes in fiscal policy." And there's the flavour of the current cycle - the flattening yield curve. Responding to a question by senator Pat Toomey about this and its implication for Fed policy, Powell answered that the FOMC ...

Chief economist update: Fed funds at five point O

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2018
... of rate hikes from the Fed so much so that the fed funds rate was higher than the yield on 10-year US Treasuries (yield curve inversion) that was later on followed by the Great Recession. This is one of the reasons why Atlanta Fed president Raphael Bostic ...

Chief economist update: Minutes of concerns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018
... associated with political and economic developments in Europe and some EMEs." There's concern over the flattening yield curve. The yield differential between the 10Y US Treasuries and the 2Y bonds is now down to 28 basis points from 54 bps at the ...

Chief economist update: Submerging markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2018
When Fed chief Jerome Powell tried to explain the US yield curve's flattening as a function of rising short rates because of the rate hikes (and expectations for more) and a smaller lift in the long-term yields because of safe-haven buying, I questioned ...

Chief economist update: Fed flattens the yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2018
... mild to a little aggression has got the forward-looking financial denizens spooked. For one, the flattening of the yield curve is ominous. Though it's not yet inverted (one presages a recession), it's heading lower. The yield differential between ...

Chief economist update: The spook on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2018
... to date, less than half than the 75 bps increase in the fed funds rate this year, indicating a more upward sloping yield curve (unless bond yields catch up) that, in turn, portends stronger growth for the US economy. And speaking of stronger US economic ...

Japan on reverse cycle?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 NOV 2017
... trillion - and promised that the bank will continue with "Quantitative and Qualitative Monetary Easing (QQE) with Yield Curve Control," aiming to achieve the price stability target of 2%, as long as it is necessary for maintaining that target in a stable ...

The BOJ's boring Halloween

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2017
... trillion - and promised that "the Bank will continue with "Quantitative and Qualitative Monetary Easing (QQE) with Yield Curve Control," aiming to achieve the price stability target of 2 percent, as long as it is necessary for maintaining that target ...

The BOJ's educated hope

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2017
... remained an excess supply capacity in capital stock and the labor market, monetary easing effects gained from the current yield curve were not enough for 2% inflation to be achieved around fiscal 2019." "Mr. G. Kataoka opposed the description on the ...

Rising yields benefit active managers

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2017
... managers however, have the flexibility to shift their portfolios to shorter duration assets, or at any point on the yield curve to minimise capital losses, Acosta added. Active managers have the prerogative to invest in the financial instruments best-suited ...