monetary policy

SINGAPORE (July 15): One of the remarkable features of post-war economic history has been the taming of inflation in the US and many other countries since the mid-1980s. Before then, the US inflation rate (based on the deflator for personal consumption ex

SINGAPORE (July 1): The Monetary Authority of Singapore will keep its exchange rate-based monetary policy stance, signalling a status quo in line with that of the US Federal Reserve. This comes after two rounds of tightening by MAS last year, while keepin

SINGAPORE (Apr 15): RHB Group Research is maintaining its “overweight” call on Singapore banks, after the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) on Friday kept its monetary policy settings unchanged amid a worsening global growth outlook and low inflat

SINGAPORE (April 15): This year, the world commemorates the anniversaries of two key events in the development of the global monetary system. The first is the creation of the International Monetary Fund at the Bretton Woods conference 75 years ago. The se

SINGAPORE (April 1): UOB Kay Hian is recommending a wide variety of yield plays offered by Singapore ranging from aviation and banks, to developers and REITs as central banks around the world continue to ease their monetary policies.   

HONG KONG (Mar 11): Hong Kong faces the likelihood of rising borrowing costs after the city’s de facto central bank intervened to defend its currency peg for the first time since August.

SINGAPORE (June 25): State Street Corporation advises investors to start adopting a more defensive stance on expectations of global volatility in 2H18, as the environment becomes more challenging for risky assets such as such as global equities, high-beta

SINGAPORE (Apr 12): Maybank Kim Eng Research says it expects the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to normalise monetary policy on Friday amid rising global geopolitical tensions.

(Apr 11): Singapore’s central bank is one step closer to tightening monetary policy this week.

(Apr 6): Singapore monetary policy can sound a little back-to-front. While for most countries tighter policy equates to higher borrowing costs, it’s not necessarily the case for the Asian city-state, where interest rates can rise when the central bank i