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Chief economist update: Annus horribilis with a vengeance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020
... experience its worst recession in 300 years. Brexit was a stroll on Hyde Park compared with COVID-19. Ex-BOE governor Mark Carney must be thanking his lucky stars he only had to deal with the GFC and Grexit and Brexit. Andrew Bailey, who succeeded Carney ...

Chief economist update: Turns out Brexit was heaven

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
... sharply from 2.1% pre-Brexit to 1.1% as at the end of the December 2019 quarter. But in his last meeting as Bank of England (BOE) governor in January this year, Mark Carney was waxing optimistic. "The most recent indicators suggest that global growth ...

Chief economist update: UK is now Bailey's baby

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2020
... 1.25% at the end of 2020. Then again, Carney's job was made difficult by Grexit (just before he was appointed BOE Governor), then Brexit, then US-China trade war, among others... and now, the coronavirus scare. In spite of these, Sterling's effective ...

Chief economist update: Brexit - the news that was

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020
... uncertainty has been removed (with or without a deal) and this time, backed by the UK Parliament at that. Bank of England (BOE) governor Mark Carney cares. In his speech at the BOE's Future of Inflation Targeting Conference in London, Carney remarked ...

Chief economist update: Brexit la la la

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2019
... Britons and Europeans and the rest of the world are not holding their collective oxygen intake. However, Bank of England (BOE) governor Mark Carney have changed his tune. If memory serves me right, Carney warned about the increased likelihood that the ...

Chief economist update: BOE flips tightening bias to easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2019
... bias. In his speech at the Local Government Association Annual Conference and Exhibition in Bournemouth, BOE governor Mark Carney declared that: "For now, a global trade war and a No Deal Brexit remain growing possibilities not certainties. Monetary ...

Chief economist update: BOE going the wrong way?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2019
... rise in rates would be prudent to nip any inflationary risks in the bud" and, more importantly, consistent with BOE governor Mark Carney's statement that, "were the economy to develop broadly in line with its Inflation Report projections, an ongoing ...

Chief economist update: Hoping for the best, preparing for the worst of Brexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2019
... Brexit's future remains uncertain as to whether the UK will leave the EU with a deal or none. Just ask BOE governor Mark Carney. In an interview with Sky News, Carney said: "The Government... is against no deal, the European Union is against no deal ...

Chief economist update: A capitalist in communist clothes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2019
... There's Brexit in the UK, while Australia is bracing for the upcoming Federal election. But there's one truism in RBA Governor Philip Lowe's latest statement: "In China, the authorities have taken further steps to ease financing conditions ...

Chief economist update: BOE waiting on Brexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2018
... Policy Council (MPC) unanimously voted to raise the Bank Rate by 25 bps to 0.75% on the 2nd of August, BOE governor Mark Carney was quoted as saying, "The mistake is to always wait, wait, wait until you have perfect certainty" before acting on policy. ...
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