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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 ...

Special Report: Hitting new ETF goals

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... the market and partly due to the fact that central banks globally have been very active in the markets, keeping interest rates low." Interest rate sensitivity With global interest rates gradually rising, fixed income becomes increasingly more attractive ...

Chief economist update: Buy the dip or sell the rallies?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2018
... in the coming months as the interest rate differential against these currencies continue to widen as it raises interest rates faster than its peers. But the more expensive greenback is also adding pressure on company profit margins that are already beginning ...

ALP victory to have meaningful impact: Daintree

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2018
... it's Daintree, great." Tyler said he would be happy given the current climate to take long positions in Australian interest rates, adding a Labor victory would likely push the RBA from 2019 to 2020, anchoring the short end of the Australian yield curve. ...

Chief economist update: As safe as Australian houses?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2018
... it also raises doubt with regards to the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) statement that the next move in interest rates will likely be up. Although that's still within the realms of the possible given the continued strength in the economy and ...

Chief economist update: Oil slick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2018
... inflation in their respective domestic economies. This has prompted many emerging market central banks to raise interest rates, damping business activity and hence, demand for crude. In a phrase, the synchronised economic upswing that prevailed until ...

Chief economist update: The Middle Kingdom's middling growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2018
... as it was last month, last year and going all the way back to the first Tuesday of August 2016 when it dropped interest rates from 1.75%. The RBA is stuck between positive growth fundamentals - GDP expanded by 3.4% in the year to the second quarter (the ...