{"id":258280,"date":"2026-01-29T21:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T21:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/258280\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T21:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T21:52:08","slug":"monetary-policy-outlook-remains-hawkish-standard-chartered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/258280\/","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&#8220;The tone of the statement tilted hawkish, which sets the stage for some policy accommodation to be withdrawn in April, in our view.&#8221;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":258281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-258280","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}