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Chief economist update: A pretty portrait of an emerging market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2019
... Philippine central bank's inflation target of 3% +/- 1%. This allowed the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas to keep interest rates steady at 4.75% at its 7 February meeting - following five interest rate increases that took the overnight repo rate from ...

Equity investors will struggle in 2019: Baur

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2019
... the beginning of 2018. The huge stock market rally is simply an extension of monetary policy, he said. Because interest rates have been suppressed by central banks for some time, earnings were calculated at low discount rates thus pushing present values ...

Chief economist update: The RBA capitulates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2019
... Governor Philip Lowe's change of heart with regards to guidance on Australian monetary policy. The next move in "interest rates is likely to be up rather than down" is no more! In his address to the National Press Club of Australia - on " Th e Year ...

Chief economist update: RBA still in denial

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2019
Say what? "The low level of interest rates is continuing to support the Australian economy. Further progress in reducing unemployment and having inflation return to target is expected, although this progress is likely to be gradual. Taking account of ...

Chief economist update: Time for an RBA shift to neutral

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
... Brisbane on 10 August 2000, and headed, "A Medium-term Perspective on Monetary Policy" - it would and should cut interest rates and soon. For not only does "the economy wants to grow faster than it currently is," it's slowing (from 3.1% in the year ...

HNWs to embrace alternatives in 2019: Fund manager

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2019
... years from a domestic listed market and real estate bias, with Australian shares and property benefiting from low interest rates. Spire Capital said a convergence of factors will continue to challenge that strategy and domestic returns in general going ...

Robo-adviser launches high interest savings solution

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2019
... high-interest cash exchange-traded fund. Stockspot is offering Stockspot Savings, giving clients access to competitive interest rates and leveraging the BetaShares High Interest Cash ETF. The ETF is currently offering 2.02%. The savings account offers ...

Industry Super Australia forecasts a rate cut

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2019
... it will be up to chief investment officers on how they shift their asset allocations to respond to a change in interest rates. Last week, AMP Capital's Shane Oliver said the RBA could cut to 1% by the end of the year with the first cut coming sooner ...

Chief economist update: Don't buy now, Australian property will be cheaper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2019
... mid-2018, if memory serves me right) on this space, challenging the RBA's forward guidance that its next move on interest rates would likely be up than down - can't blame consensus for predicting the same, it came straight from the horse's ...

Fed's pause becomes the ECB's problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
... challenges just as the Fed. In the minutes of its 12-13 December 2018 Governing Council meeting, the ECB confirmed that, interest rates would remain at present levels "for as long as necessary to ensure the continued sustained convergence of inflation ...