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Chief economist update: The BOJ kills off specs (for now)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2018
... guidance for policy rates, and to enhance the sustainability of "Quantitative and Qualitative Monetary Easing (QQE) with Yield Curve Control." Yes Virginia, the BOJ has added another tool to try and coax inflation back to life. QQE with YCC has been ...

Chief economist update: Boom in the USA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2018
... really - I am not happy about it." Then again, the Fed would need to be vigilant over the continued flatness of the yield curve. Ben Ong is the Director of Economics and Investments at Rainmaker Group. He previously worked as a fund manager, economist ...

Chief economist update: BOJ to stop throwing good money after bad?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2018
... "Qualitative and Quantitative Easing (QQE) with negative interest rates and then QQE with negative interest rates and yield curve control." Then again, despite all these stimulus measures, the targeted inflation remains elusive and that the BOJ is only ...

Chief economist update: The Goldilocks rate of interest

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2018
... effects of the recent changes in fiscal policy." And there's the flavour of the current cycle - the flattening yield curve. Responding to a question by senator Pat Toomey about this and its implication for Fed policy, Powell answered that the FOMC ...

Chief economist update: Fed funds at five point O

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2018
... of rate hikes from the Fed so much so that the fed funds rate was higher than the yield on 10-year US Treasuries (yield curve inversion) that was later on followed by the Great Recession. This is one of the reasons why Atlanta Fed president Raphael Bostic ...

Chief economist update: Minutes of concerns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018
... associated with political and economic developments in Europe and some EMEs." There's concern over the flattening yield curve. The yield differential between the 10Y US Treasuries and the 2Y bonds is now down to 28 basis points from 54 bps at the ...

Chief economist update: Submerging markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2018
When Fed chief Jerome Powell tried to explain the US yield curve's flattening as a function of rising short rates because of the rate hikes (and expectations for more) and a smaller lift in the long-term yields because of safe-haven buying, I questioned ...

Chief economist update: Fed flattens the yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2018
... mild to a little aggression has got the forward-looking financial denizens spooked. For one, the flattening of the yield curve is ominous. Though it's not yet inverted (one presages a recession), it's heading lower. The yield differential between ...

Chief economist update: The spook on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2018
... to date, less than half than the 75 bps increase in the fed funds rate this year, indicating a more upward sloping yield curve (unless bond yields catch up) that, in turn, portends stronger growth for the US economy. And speaking of stronger US economic ...

Japan on reverse cycle?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 NOV 2017
... trillion - and promised that the bank will continue with "Quantitative and Qualitative Monetary Easing (QQE) with Yield Curve Control," aiming to achieve the price stability target of 2%, as long as it is necessary for maintaining that target in a stable ...