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Chief economist update: Australian recession - the next generation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2020
... Mo's rescue packages - more specifically, his JobSeeker and JobKeeper schemes and of course, the RBA's monetary policy accommodation. So much so that, while the June quarter National Accounts will for sure and for certain confirm a technical ...

Chief economist update: Easing does it (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
Easing of central bank monetary policy settings helped equity markets rebound and economies to recover from the "Great Recession" wrought by the Global Financial Crisis of 2009. Easing - this time, of social distancing and lockdown restrictions (implemented ...

Chief economist update: No cheers as RBA hits inflation target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... temporary, underscored by the revision in its June 2020 headline CPI forecast to 1.6% (February 2020 Statement on Monetary Policy) from 1.9% (November 2019 SoMP). Then COVID-19 this way came... igniting panic-buying (towards the end of the first quarter). ...

Australian fund regulation below average: Morningstar

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... "Commissions have been banned in Australia, the Netherlands, and the UK," it said. "In Hong Kong, intermediaries that receive monetary or non-monetary benefits from fund issuers can no longer refer to themselves as independent."

Chief economist update: BOJ expands Enhancement of Monetary Easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
The Bank of Japan (BOJ) added another monetary policy term to our vocabulary at its March 2020 meeting - Enhancement of Monetary Easing - as it tries to limit the economic fallout from the coronavirus. It had the same label for its expanded policy initiative ...

Bitcoin bonanza amid COVID-19 crisis

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
... of fears regarding inflation or the depreciation of currency has re-emerged among investors that are worried about the monetary and fiscal policy measures that have been used during the pandemic. "Many investors consider Bitcoin as a hedge to inflation ...

Chief economist update: Turns out Brexit was heaven

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
... global growth has stabilised, reflecting the partial easing of trade tensions and the significant loosening of monetary policy by many central banks over the past year," he said. "Global business confidence and other manufacturing indicators have generally ...

Chief economist update: How deep the global recession?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2020
... Great Lockdown, as one might call it, is projected to shrink global growth dramatically." This is how the International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently characterised the global economic backdrop that led it to take a chainsaw and lopped off 6.3% from its ...

Chief economist update: BOK holds as infections ease

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2020
... rebounding by 5.4% from the March 19 low. These, perhaps factored into Bank of Korea's (BOK) decision to keep monetary policy settings unchanged at its 9 April meeting. So does the fact that the Korean central bank announced policy easing measures ...

Chief economist update: COVID-infected Aussie stats trickle in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2020
Ho-hum. Financial markets widely expected the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) decision to keep monetary policy settings unchanged at its April meeting especially so soon after announcing a comprehensive accommodation package the month before ...