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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: 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 ...

Confidence up but will consumers shop?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 OCT 2017
... previous month while the expectations index improved to 100.1 this month from 96.0 in September. Westpac chief economist Bill Evans explains the surveys latest results: "Some of this likely stems from consistent coverage of the continuing improvement ...

A matter of assumptions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2017
... no longer necessary as the downside risks to growth and inflation have eased. But not Westpac, its chief economist Bill Evans is sticking to his guns and saying that, "we are not convinced that the cash rate will need to rise any time throughout the ...

Not happy enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2017
... straight month at that. You, I and Irene don't have to hunt for the why's and wherefore's, Westpac chief economist Bill Evans explains it succinctly: "Pressures on family finances, concerns around interest rates, deteriorating housing affordability and ...
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