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RBA set to lift the cash rate again

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2022
... appearing tough on inflation - in that order." "Given the strong employment data in November and the upcoming January meeting break, the easiest path for the RBA is to go ahead with a full 25bp hike."

Chief economist update: Steady as it was, steady it will be

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2020
... and inflation. The ECB's announced the launch of a strategic review of its monetary policy strategy at its January meeting that is expected to be concluded by end-2020 and so wouldn't have a bearing on this year's policy decisions.

Fed's pause becomes the ECB's problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
... earlier (prior to the Fed's 18-19 December 2018 FOMC meeting). What's more, the likelihood of a rate cut at its 19 January meeting (based on fed funds futures trading) has increased to 17.7% (from 14.4% a month ago) while the chances of a rate hike to ...

Chief economist update: Three minutes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2018
... sluggish wages growth in the December quarter. 'twas same old, same old for the ECB too with the minutes of its 24-25 January meeting revealing that the Governing Council deemed it premature to change even its communication regarding monetary policy ...

ECB nips the bud of rate hike speculations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAR 2017
... settings unchanged following their 9 March meeting - and its forward guidance nearly a rehash of the message at the 9 January meeting - speculations gathered greater momentum after a sentence was deleted out of ECB president Mario Draghi's "Introductory ...

Sunrise sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2017
Markets don't expect the Bank of Japan (BOJ) to alter monetary policy settings after it concludes its 30-31 January meeting. Just as well for indications remain ambivalent. Sunrise. Manufacturing activity expansion accelerates. The Nikkei Japan flash ...

A "must do" for the ECB

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2016
... energy prices. But Draghi doesn't view it this way. As the ECB president explained in his Q&A after the bank's 21 January meeting: "Let me refer to what we are looking at when we have these dramatic movements in oil price, but also other commodity prices... ...

More negatives

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2016
... early 1990s when it built "concrete beaches" and "bridges to nowhere". And so far... it's gone nowhere. At its 29 January meeting when the BOJ Board decided to take interest rates down from positive 0.1% to negative 0.1%, the Japanese central bank promised ...

Patience, my dear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2015
... or would be deleted in this month's FOMC meeting is to look at what has changed (or not) since the Fed's 27-28 January meeting, most especially, changes to employment and inflation - its dual statutory mandate. What the Fed saw in its January meeting ...

BOJ optimistic as forever

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2015
... expectations for a 0.6% gain and definitely far below the BOJ's 2% target. Spoiler alert. The minutes of the FOMC's 27-28 January meeting could again railroad the BOJ's economic outlook with the yen/US$ rising by to A¥118.71 from A¥119.25 in overnight ...
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