monetary policy

SINGAPORE (Dec 5): UBS is forecasting global economic growth to continue its positive momentum over the past year through to 2018, with little evidence of an impending slowdown.

SINGAPORE (Dec 4): Central bankers are starting to see promising results from one of the recent additions to their monetary policy toolbox.

NEW YORK/HONG KONG (Oct 16): People’s Bank of China Governor Zhou Xiaochuan warned that Chinese companies have taken on too much debt, and argued for less financial leverage as well as fiscal reforms to constrain local government borrowing.

SINGAPORE (Sept 22): Recent economic data suggests that Singapore is poised to enjoy the best economic conditions it has seen since 2011. The most important development is that global demand is feeding through to Singapore more palpably than before.

(Aug 28): Leaders of the world’s most powerful central banks defended post-crisis reforms at their annual retreat in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, while discussing the causes and consequences of populist waves that have reshuffled the political order in the US

WASHINGTON (July 13): Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said the US economy should continue to expand over the next few years, allowing the central bank to keep raising interest rates, while also stressing a gradual approach to tightening as the Fed moni

BEIJING (July 11): An onslaught of maturing funds may see China’s central bank reaching for the fire hose.

SINGAPORE (June 30): The Bank of Singapore (BoS), a subsidiary of Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC), remains “overweight” on the US financial sector due to the potential de-regulation for US banks as well as their prospects for higher-than-ex

SINGAPORE (June 22): Maybank Kim Eng Research remains “positive” on Singapore REITs (S-REITs), with confidence that a firmer exchange rate regime poses no immediate threat to the industrial REITs.

WASHINGTON (June 15): Federal Reserve officials forged ahead with an interest-rate increase and additional plans to tighten monetary policy despite growing concerns over weak inflation.