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Economic recap: Week to November 5

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2021
... more persistent than expected... In other words, we continue to expect that inflation will ease back but relative to our July forecast, it's higher for longer." Inflation, inflation, inflation. Financial markets' worrying about central banks ...

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: RBA negative on negative interest rate policy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2020
... negative rates has not changed...This is not something we're looking at." Although considered an option, the minutes of its July meeting, the RBA wrote that: "Members agreed that negative interest rates in Australia remain extraordinarily unlikely." ...

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: No escaping the inverted yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2020
... " because of the inverted US yield curve. The Fed's pause in early 2019 and three interest rate reductions later - in July, September and October - plus the "first phase deal" between the US and China - turned the yield curve positive around October ...

Chief economist update: It's a holiday for the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2020
... meeting. Mission accomplished! But as we all now know, that paused that refreshed was followed by three 25 basis point cuts - July, September and October. History repeats? Going through the CME FedWatch Tool, I find that while the market majority expects ...

Chief economist update: Has the Fed conquered the yield curve?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2019
... appears to be the Fed's latest missive at the conclusion of its 10-11 December FOMC meeting - after three 25 bps cuts - in July, September and October - that took the fed funds rate from 2.5% to 1.75%. Fed chair Jerome Powell was full of optimism. ...

Chief economist update: Good news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2019
... Reserve cut interest rates down another 25 basis points to 1.5%-1.75% on October 30 (the third in as many FOMC meetings - July and September). And China appears to be getting back up too. The Caixin China manufacturing PMI rose from 51.4 in September ...
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