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Quantitative easing eases bank lending

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2015
The ECB Bank Lending Survey that showed lending conditions continued to ease in the third quarter.

China should have hardlanded

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015
If you don't believe the numbers, just change the metric.

AMP to launch SMSF trustee course

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
AMP will launch an online self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) trustee course early next year as part of a wider education strategy aimed at both advisers and trustees.

Lift-off off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
For sure and for certain the Fed will have to lift some time, what is uncertain is when.

WBC rate lift pressures RBA rate cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2015
Financial markets are now pricing a 57% 25 basis point snip in the official cash rate at the RBA's November meeting, up from less than 40% before WBC's announcement. Citi is 100% sure of a rate cut by February next year.

Big trouble in big China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2015
We're certainly in terrible trouble now. It couldn't be your normal garden variety profit-taking, pocketing some of last week's cream off the top, simple portfolio rebalancing, or a mere random walk. No siree! There's big trouble in big China and it'll ...

Inflation expectations says no

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2015
While the Fed and the markets appear to be focused on the one-half of their twin mandate, jobs - the latest slowing of which caused the latest betting that a lift-off is off the table this year - it's doing better than the other half, that is on inflation.

Reversal of fortunes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2015
Financial markets are reversing their third quarter reversal because speculations are now mounting not over when the Fed would start lift-off, but over whether it should start stimulating once more.

NIRP before lift-off?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2015
"I don't see raising the target range for the fed-funds rate above its current low level in 2015 or 2016 as being consistent with the pursuit of the kind of labor market outcomes that we are charged with delivering."

Holding pattern

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
Both the RBA and the BOJ have sanguine and positive views on their domestic economies.