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Chief economist update: Get shorty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020
... and fiscal balances. This isn't lost on investors. China's relatively stronger growth has pushed the Shanghai Composite index up by 10.1% this year to date - outperforming the S&P 500 (9.4%); the Nikkei-225 (-0.4%); the Stoxx-50 (-11.9%); the ...

Chief economist update: Second waving, not drowning

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
... it's also given central command freedom to turn its attention on re-growing the economy. Not only that, the Shanghai Composite index rallied by 5.7% after Reuters recent report quoting the state media mouthpiece, the China Securities Journal saying ...

Chief economist update: Oil gush

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020
... dropped by 7.6% on that day; the Stoxx 600 index plunged by 7.1%; the Nikkei-225 index went down by 5.1% and the Shanghai composite index by 3.0%; and, the S&P/ASX 200 index plunged by 7.3% It was also the day when cases of coronavirus infection worldwide ...

Market recovery or dead cat bounce?

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2020
... also had a strong session, with the FTSE 100 also rising 1% and the DAX gaining 1.9%. Meanwhile in Asia, the Shanghai Composite lost 0.9%, the Nikkei lost 1.6% and the Hang Seng fell 1.3%, as rising coronavirus cases caused fears of economic fallout. ...

Chief economist update: What happens in China...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2020
... While most major equity markets have lost between a fifth and a third of their value this year-to-date, the Shanghai composite index is down by 10%. It would have been much better were it not for the recent People's Daily, China report that: "39 ...

Chief economist update: China leads the way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2020
... how this coronavirus game of chicken will eventually play out. At the height of the viral scare in China, the Shanghai composite index was the worst- performing stock market in the world (or at least compared with other major equity markets). But its ...

China vaccinates against corona

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2020
... would again be extended if things don't get better by then. However, in a seemingly perverse reaction, the Shanghai Composite index has rebounded by 10.7% from the one-year low of 2746.61 points recorded on February 3 (following reports that the ...

Coronavirus in, climate change out: Costello, deVere

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2020
... "short-term impact" the new coronavirus has had. On Monday in Asia, markets suffered dramatic blows, with the Shanghai Composite falling 2.7%, the Hong Kong Hang Seng dropping 1.1%, and Japan's Nikkei falling 2%. Meanwhile in Europe, the composite ...

Chief economist update: Equity markets struck by coronavirus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2020
... Pacific time zone -- the MSCI Asia Pacific index (ex-Japan) dropped by 1.0%, the Nikkei-225 fell by 0.8%, the Shanghai composite gave up 1.5% and the Hang Seng index plunged by 2.0% -- in contagion fears. According to The Guardian: "China confirmed 291 ...

Chief economist update: Are capital markets the next Sino-US battleground?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2019
... indexes managed by US firms." As a result, the Chinese yuan fell by 0.4% versus the US dollar and while the Shanghai composite index inched up by 0.1% (it closed before the news), China shares traded on the US exchanges dropped. According to the Financial ...
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