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Advice firm runs rule over Labor policy

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2018
... of Australian shares, they remain a better income solution than international shares and, with the current low interest rates, than term deposits and other fixed interest investments," he said. "It is difficult to see companies changing their shareholder ...

Chief economist update: A prelude to a rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2018
... be? Could it be that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is now pondering the likelihood that the next move in interest rates is down rather than up? In early June this year, I put forth a thesis that long stretches of steady interest rates have been ...

Chief economist update: RBA more likely to cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2018
... back in August 2016. Financial markets expect the December RBA tete-a-tete to result in more of the same - steady interest rates. This is because the RBA will find that although global growth is continuing - and the latest US-China trade war got a stay ...

Chief economist update: Powell Power

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2018
... Halloween month of October - when, in an interview with PBS, he declared that: "The really extremely accommodative low interest rates that we needed when the economy was quite weak, we don't need those anymore. They're not appropriate anymore. ...

Chief economist update: Is TLTRO III coming?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2018
... gauge its exact contribution given the contemporaneous accommodative ECB policies of asset purchases and lower interest rates plus, the general lift in the global economies back then. Still, it would be a good backstop (if necessary) to the end of QE ...

Chief economist update: Wall Street in drunken sailor's shadow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2018
... spending and lifting economic activity. Now the Fed is taking away money, money, money from the system (and raising interest rates) and the ECB has already stated that it would end QE by the end of this year. The Fed's actions have lifted the US ...

Chief economist update: Predictions allude to frozen RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2018
... landing from the slowdown. Trade growth and investment have been slackening on the back of tariff hikes. Higher interest rates and an appreciating US dollar have resulted in an outflow of capital from emerging economies and are weakening their currencies. ...

Chief economist update: Thanks for nothing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2018
... were resolved by money, when the Fed and other major central banks flooded the system with liquidity. By raising interest rates (along with QE tapering), the Fed is siphoning liquidity from the rest of the world. It's a no brainer. Investors would ...

Chief economist update: Finding neutral

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2018
... good and yippee-kay-yay for at the current fed funds rate of 2.25% (2%-2.25% to be exact), the Fed needs to raise interest rates by only one to three times (at 25 bps each) before it hit neutral and it's job is done - the Goldilocks state of monetary ...

Chief economist update: The money is one Fed rate hike next year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2018
... on the end game of the on-going trade stoush between the US and China and, of course, how high the Fed is taking interest rates. There's no question that Trump's protectionist trade policy is impacting business and investment decisions around ...