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Chief economist update: The back-to-back rate cuts Australia has to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2019
... low of 1.5% to a deeper low of just 1%. I guess governor Lowe didn't receive the memo from Bank of International Settlements (BIS) - the world's central bank of central banks - chief Agustin Carstens that delivered a day before that: "Monetary ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2016
... challenge, the real problem for Australia is its private debt. "Our debt level according to the Bank of International Settlements, private debt level, has gone from 150% of GDP to 210% of GDP," he told the ABC Business Report. According to the World ...

Doom(ed) rebound?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2016
... Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)'s review committee and former chief economist with the Bank of International Settlements - warning that "The situation is worse than it was in 2007. Our macroeconomic ammunition to fight downturns is essentially ...

Pension funds loading up on alternatives: BIS

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
... alternative investments in response to declining asset returns according to an annual report from the Bank of International Settlements (BIS). Pension funds in the UK and US are reported to be driving the shift with the latter's disposal of equities ...

Glimmer of hope

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2011
... French banks have already been downgraded because of this, and German banks are also exposed. The Bank of International Settlements (BIS) in its report on "The International Banking Market" listed the direct and indirect exposure of US and European banks ...

2009: The lost year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2009
... yesterday. European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet -- wearing his cap as head of the Bank of International Settlements - declared before the forum that the global economy will slow significantly this year and that '2010 should be the year ...
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