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RBA deputy governor joins Westpac

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 10 JUL 2023
... its new chief economist after almost 15 years with the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), succeeding the long-serving Bill Evans. Ellis will join the bank in October while Evans will stay with the group and transition into the role of senior economic advisor ...

Chief economist update: Money buys happiness

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
... October that followed September's 18% jump. No need to re-invent the wheel. According to Westpac chief economist Bill Evans: "This is an extraordinary result. The Index has now lifted by 32% over the last two months to the highest level since July ...

Chief economist update: October rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020
Will they? Won't they? According to Bill, the RBA will. That's Westpac chief economist Bill Evans for you. Bill released a note a day after RBA deputy governor Guy Debelle addressed the Australian Industry Group's (AiG) September 22 virtual ...

Chief economist update: Australian pessimism eases

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2020
... reading of 93.8 in September from 79.5 in August and the 29-year low of 75.6 in April. But as Westpac chief economist, Bill Evans, notes: "...the September survey was completed before the announcement by Victorian State Premier Andrews on September 6 ...

Will COVID-19 infect mortgages and RMBS?

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2020
... economic outlook in terms of COVID-19 is slightly bleaker than others. It predicts 12.5% unemployment and -6.9% GDP. Bill Evans at Westpac is more optimistic, predicting -3.50% GDP and 11.1% unemployment. Others, like Citi and Goldman Sachs think unemployment ...

Chief economist update: Has the Fed conquered the yield curve?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2019
... hikes in interest rates by 2021 (as per the December dot plot). This isn't a good look for Westpac chief economist Bill Evans and his team. In their "Westpac Market Outlook December 2019 & January 2020" report released only hours before the Fed announced ...

Chief economist update: The power of one

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2019
... Vesna! Vesna Poljak - the Australian Financial Review 's (AFR) market editor - reports Westpac's chief economist Bill Evans has upped the ante and is now calling for not one, not two, but three RBA interest rate reductions "meaning the cash rate ...

Chief economist update: Wrong way, go down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2019
... and also, the still ongoing fallout from the Hayne Royal Commission. And these, even before Westpac chief economist Bill Evans made it known to the world that he's changed his RBA rate projections from steady all the way, to two rate cuts this year ...

Chief economist update: Nerves of steel

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2019
Could it be? Could it be that Westpac's chief economist Bill Evans has just gotten one up on me? Nah Virginia, me don't want to "kill Bill", we economists may not see eye to eye but we stick together. More so that Bill's come around to my ...

Chief economist update: Time for an RBA shift to neutral

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
... low 1.5%. And they will! The $64 million question is what the RBA will do next. According to Westpac chief economist Bill Evans: "At the beginning of 2018 when Westpac was predicting the cash rate would remain on hold in both 2018 and 2019, markets had ...
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