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Chief economist update: Lock in two RBA rate cuts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2019
... inflation has softened... big time. There's no other option for the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to cut interest rates soon and twice. The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) consumer price index report showed headline inflation slowed ...

Chief economist update: The Fed pause that refreshes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2019
... be quantitative easing" - and White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow - he wants the Fed to "immediately" cut interest rates by 50 basis points - ring hollow. The pause that refreshes. The Fed's forward guidance of a pause was sufficient to lift ...

Chief economist update: AUD misdirection

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2019
... US$0.7178 and by 0.5% on the TWI to 63.44. Australia-US interest rate differentials don't explain this. Short-term interest rates remain as they were at the end of 2018 - the RBA's official cash rate is 1.5% and the Fed funds rate at 2.25%-2.5%. ...

Chief economist update: Japan yearns for a weaker yen

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2019
... forward guidance from the Fed - the minutes of the 19-20 March FOMC meeting reaffirmed its commitment to leave interest rates on hold this year - and a similar one from the European Central Bank's (ECB) April meeting - it kept interest rates unchanged ...

Chief economist update: Two indicators giving the Fed a headache

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2019
... days before that, White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow made it known he wants the Fed to "immediately" cut interest rates by 50 basis points. What's a Fed chair to do? What else but go back to its statutory dual mandate - price stability and ...

Chief economist update: ECB digs deeper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2019
... deliver on our mandate". The speech followed the Governing Council's March 7 meeting where it decided to keep interest rates unchanged - repo at 0.00%; marginal lending facility at 0.25%; deposit facility at -0.40% - while at the same time extending ...

Chief economist update: The Fed should act now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAR 2019
... The risk is that this gives the Fed a false sense of security and, like in previous episodes, is opting to keep interest rates on hold instead of cutting them right here right now.

Chief economist update: A question of when?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2019
... to 42.9% from 9.9%; and, at its December meeting to 40.8% from 14.2%. Moreover, bets that the Fed would cut the interest rates twice this year had been increasing - currently a 1.9% probability in June from just 0.1% a month ago; 14.4% in September from ...

Chief economist update: RBA repeats history

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2019
... suggests further weakening in job creation in the coming months. History repeats? Just as today, the RBA has kept interest rates unchanged at 4.75% for 12 months (Nov 2010- Oct 2011) - that time the longest stretch since the GFC - as the unemployment ...

Chief economist update: Fed on ice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2019
... central banks' changes in policies. A change in policy stance from hawkish to dovish and/or an outright cut in interest rates telegraph the central bank's concern over the state of the economy. This is none other exemplified by the Fed projections ...