{"id":270812,"date":"2026-01-29T21:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T21:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/270812\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T21:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T21:57:09","slug":"monetary-policy-outlook-remains-hawkish-standard-chartered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/270812\/","title":{"rendered":"Monetary policy outlook remains hawkish \u2013 Standard Chartered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) maintained its monetary policy settings in January, contrary to expectations of a tightening move. The statement&#8217;s hawkish tone suggests potential policy accommodation withdrawal in April. Edward Lee and Jonathan Koh from Standard Chartered anticipate a 50bps steepening of the SGD NEER slope, with SGD NEER expected to trade around 1.5% above the midpoint of the policy band in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>Hawkish tone signals future tightening<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We expect MAS to tighten monetary policy in April, steepening the SGD NEER slope by 50bps.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The tone of the statement tilted hawkish, which sets the stage for some policy accommodation to be withdrawn in April, in our view.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We expect SGD NEER to trade around 1.5% above the midpoint of the policy band in the coming months.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(This article was created with the help of an Artificial Intelligence tool and reviewed by an editor.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) maintained its monetary policy settings in January, contrary to expectations of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-270812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}