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Economic recap: Week to August 6

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2021
... certainly bolsters Fed tapering talks but the fast spreading Delata variant could still upend the recovery. In its 28 July FOMC statement, the Fed itself noted that, "The path of the economy continues to depend on the course of the virus. Progress on ...

Economic recap: Week to July 30

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2021
... The weighted median CPI inflation sped up to 1.7% from 1.3%. The advance estimate of US GDP growth and the Fed's July FOMC meeting took centre stage last week. The US Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) reported that the country's GDP growth increased ...

Chief economist update: Worse news is better news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2020
... infections (5.7 million) in the world and the most deaths (176.3K). This is not lost on the Fed. The minutes of their 28-29 July FOMC meeting revealed its downgrade to earlier growth predictions. "The projected rate of recovery in real GDP, and the pace ...

Chief economist update: A tiny bug takes down the largest economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020
... experiencing rising infections. A fact not lost on US Fed chair Jerome Powell. At a press conference following the 28-29 July FOMC meeting, Powell declared: "We have seen some signs in recent weeks that the increase in virus cases and the renewed measures ...

Chief economist update: Jerome is in the Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2019
... Jerome's task is not made any easier by the current internal division of views at the Fed, as the minutes of the 30-31 July FOMC reveal -- when it decided to cut the fed funds rate by 25 bps to 2.0%-2.25%. "A couple of participants indicated that ...

Chief economist update: Bonds do the limbo rock

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2019
... over the Fed's non-commitment over further rate cuts - after it cut the fed funds rate by 25 bps to 2.25% at its July FOMC meeting - compounded by Trump's escalation trade tensions with Beijing and the depreciation of the Chinese yuan, raised ...

Chief economist update: Fed cut and Trump's war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2019
... markets exactly what they were expecting - a 25 basis point reduction in the Fed funds rate at the conclusion of its July FOMC meeting - but instead of revving up the risk on trade, it was risk off. Equity markets fell. The S&P 500 index fell by 1.1% ...

Chief economist update: Don't buy a Big Mac in America

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2019
... intervention were offset by changed market expectations that the Fed would cut the Fed funds rate by only 25 bps at its July FOMC meeting rather than 50 bps (prompted by the sharply stronger than expected US non-farm payrolls report for June) sent the ...

Chief economist update: Australia needs a cheaper A$

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2019
... also eased growing expectations the Fed would cut interest rates by 50 bps from the current 2.25%-2.5% as early as its July FOMC meeting to just a 25bps reduction. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) would have clicked "like" though. This is because ...

Chief economist update: BOE flips tightening bias to easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2019
... puts the probability that the US central bank will cut interest rates by 25 bps to 2%-2.25% at the conclusion of its July FOMC meeting at 95.1%. This is backed-up by the Fed's semi-annual Monetary Policy Report noting: "Since the beginning of May ...
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