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IMF flags 'drawn out' inflation battle in Australia

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2026
... trade-offs in balancing the risk of growth slowdown against the risk of persistent inflation. "In such cases, further monetary easing should proceed only with robust evidence of inflation expectations remaining anchored and inflation returning toward ...

FEATURE: Private credit | At the precipice

GLENDA KORPORAAL  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2025
... "Positive momentum in terms of M&A is coming back into the market. There's more confidence with a period of monetary easing. But during these boom times, leverage can get a bit high. "Investors are very eager to lend, and companies are borrowing ...

RBA says it can 'afford to be patient' on rate decisions

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2025
... where it currently stands at 3.6%. "Members noted that any of these scenarios could limit the scope for further monetary easing, particularly with inflation having been above its target for much of the preceding few years," it said. However, should the ...

Special feature: Hunting for value

LACHLAN COLQUHOUN  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2025
... manager Daintree Capital, director Justin Tyler says the key factor in the current bond market is the pace of monetary easing and "how just much is priced into the short end." "I think the steepness that you're seeing in the bond curve is coming ...

RBA verdict on knife edge: Economists split

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAY 2023
... tight enough to push the economy into a period of sub trend growth rather than outright recession. In our view, monetary easing is unlikely this year with the window for easing opening in the first half of 2024 as a building output gap reinforces the ...

Chief economist update: Fourth wave threatens Olympics, growth outlook

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2021
... kept monetary policy settings unchanged at its March meeting and despite its optimism, declared that "the current monetary easing should be continued for a long time". Or it could ease even more.

Chief economist update: BOJ has no plans to ease easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2021
... Japanese government bond yield at around 0%. It also pledged that it "will continue with Quantitative and Qualitative Monetary Easing (QQE) with Yield Curve Control, aiming to achieve the price stability target of 2%, as long as it is necessary for maintaining ...

Chief economist update: The virus, the vaccine, the variant

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2021
... "Additional support could come from fading idiosyncratic drags in key emerging markets coupled with the effects of monetary easing and improved sentiment following the "Phase One" US-China trade deal, with the associated partial rollback of previously ...

Chief economist update: Lowe taking interest rates lower

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2020
... worst and there were severe restrictions on activity we judged that there was little to be gained from further monetary easing. The solutions to the problems the country faced lay elsewhere. As the economy opens up, though, it is reasonable to expect ...

Profound uncertainty remains: IMF

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2020
... "Monetary policy has become accommodative across the board, with unprecedented support from major central banks, and monetary easing in emerging markets including through first time use of unconventional policies," she said. "Discretionary fiscal policy ...
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