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The horse still refuses to drink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015
... week's National Reform Summit in Sydney. We're "sleepwalking into a real mess" is how ex-Treasury head Martin Parkinson put it. RBA Gov Glen wants the government to "go for growth". "Reasonable people get this. They also know, intuitively, that the kind ...

A$ falls to the occasion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
... I and Irene can be thankful for, and that is the Australian dollar is falling. Hip, hip... The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has found itself engaged in this new currency war - triggered by China's recent devaluation of the yuan - without firing a ...

Australia: which way now?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2015
... blame it on the Rio... but it could never, never be us. For, according to the minutes of the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) August Board meeting, "Domestically, economic activity had generally been more positive over recent months." Likewise, "Members ...

Easing cycle over for now

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015
... country's terms of trade, which have been declining due to falling iron ore prices. According to Reynolds, this means that the RBA's concerns about the currency have eased, as indicated by the change in language in the statement published after the August ...

Altius fund added to netwealth platform

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015
... Sustainable Bond Fund aims to outperform the better of the Bloomberg AusBond Composite Index by one percent per annum and the RBA cash rate through a cycle (before fees). The fund excludes companies whose primary business activity involves armaments ...

Indian economy accelerating/slowing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015
It wasn't only the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) that didn't surprise with its unchanged policy decision yesterday, that other reserve bank did too. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced no change in policy settings following the conclusion of ...

RBA to deliver nothing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2015
Our very own Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will hold its monthly Board meeting today to deliberate on the economy's monetary policy setting. This month looks easy-peasy for the RBA. Keep the official cash rate steady at 2.0% plus a few minor tweaks ...

Make it December (for now)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
... more like the flukes - the outliers -- as annual growth in the ECI had been averaging only about 2.0% since 2010. Just as RBA Gov Glenn wondered whether Australia's trend growth is now lower than 3% -- 3.5%, maybe America's NAIRU (non-accelerating inflation ...

Investors to get less in coming years

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
... returns in the years ahead, they saw no reason to run for the exit. "The unemployment rate is better than people expected. The RBA has still got some ammunition and that's why it has been reluctant to cut any further," said Williams. Padowitz said equity ...

Reading too much out of nothing at all

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2015
... keep you, I and Irene informed and prepared well in advance when she's about to push the lift-off button. This reminds me of RBA Gov Glenn's comments after his speech at the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum in London at the end of June. ...