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Chief economist update: BOJ decision announced and ignored

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2019
... dropped by 5.4% in the month of January and by 5.2% over the year. However, most telling is after years of negative interest rates and "QQE with Yield Curve Control", loan demand from both businesses and households continue to drift lower. No one may ...

Chief economist update: The AUD's resilience

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2019
... Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will release the minutes of its March 5 board meeting - when it decided to keep interest rates unchanged at a record low 1.5% - today. I imagine that the men and women of the RBA board would have discussed the slowing ...

RBA issues stern climate change warning

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2019
... Debelle said climate change will likely have a permanent effect on the Australian economic landscape. He also warned interest rates will likely be influenced by the impacts of climate change. Debelle listed the ways in which extreme weather includes ...

Chief economist update: Be fearful when indicators show no fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2019
... (PBOC), Factset reports: "At press conference to conclude NPC, Li reaffirmed capacity to use reserve requirements and interest rates to support economic growth (Reuters). Stated China's economy is facing additional downward pressure but Beijing will ...

Chief economist update: What's the RBA waiting for?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2019
... in the previous quarter. So what's the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) waiting for? Why doesn't it cut interest rates, and cut it now? I could only surmise that the reason is because the Australian central bank doesn't want to be seen that ...

Chief economist update: Breaking up is hard to do

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2019
... the BOE's 2.0% inflation target - despite accelerating wages growth. So much so, it allowed the BOE to raise interest rates twice since the Brexit referendum - a 25 bps increase in the Bank Rate from 0.25% to 0.5% in February 2017 and then another ...

Jamieson Coote Bonds introduces global fund

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2019
... 50-year lows," he said. "This is a result of the lag effect of the credit market. When the Federal Reserve hiked interest rates in the start of June 2004, they hiked 425 basis points and finished in June 2006. We didn't have a crisis for another ...

Chief economist update: Prepare for lift-off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2019
... leanings from the Bank of England ("an ongoing tightening of monetary policy would be appropriate"); Bank of Canada ("interest rates to its neutral range 2.5% -3.5%); and the Reserve Bank of Australia ("the next move in interest rate is likely to be ...

Chief economist update: Wrong way, go down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2019
... despite the changes in relative monetary policy expectations - the Fed's on hold this year and the RBA will cut interest rates (maybe two according to Westpac) this year. Yet the Australian dollar refuses to go down. This is despite consensus expectations ...

ClearView posts first half profit dip

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2019
... "[For the overall business,] the current challenging operating environment - characterised by prolonged record low interest rates, poor consumer sentiment exacerbated by the Royal Commission and the flow-on effect of life insurance commission caps under ...