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Chief economist update: Another five minutes of sunshine?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018
Australians all, let us rejoice! Our economy is in pole position. The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) National Accounts report showed the economy expanded by 3.1% in the year to the March quarter, accelerating from the 2.4% in the previous ...

Chief economist update: Capex and credit and the trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2018
Just when the threatening clouds of Quitaly and its negative repercussions on the whole of the Eurozone has dissipated, US President Donald Trump's trade protectionist policy in the name of American national security comes back to haunt. Not that ...

Chief economist update: "Quitaly"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2018
Move over China and North Korea, you too Iran and Israel, a new old crisis has come back to town...and it could be bigger. While the financial market world still haven't seen the end game of US President Donald Trump's protectionist trade policies ...

Chief economist update: Italy and Spain an emerging ECB problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2018
Geo-politics remain the talk of the financial markets as Trump's rolling circus again came to the fore with his flip-flop-flip over the US-North Korean summit - just a day after Trump cancelled the summit, he declared it back on again. Make what ...

Chief economist update: A US dollar story

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2018
The times, they are a-changin'. After reaching a peak of 103.01 on the 23 December 2016, the Bloomberg US dollar index began its long descent before hitting a three-year low of 89.19 in February this year - a 13.4% depreciation. The US dollar has ...

Chief economist update: Prudence, patience and persistence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
The European Central Bank's (ECB) 26 April Governing Council meeting produced unchanged monetary policy settings yet again, marking the 26th month of inaction. The eurozone's interest rates haven't changed - repo rate at 0.0%; deposit facility at -0.40% ...

Chief economist update: The euro's doing Trump's work in the Eurozone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2018
Who was the first to blink? Was it Trump? Or was it Xi? "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn!" Given the financial markets' reaction, they don't care so long as the "lose-lose" situation of a trade war is averted. Still, this will continue to task ...

Chief economist update: The risks just got real

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2018
An influx of economic data and surveys are set for release this week. The central banks of Australia, Canada, the Eurozone and Japan are also scheduled to meet. Don't bother with any of them. Whatever the indicators indicate and the central banks decide ...

Chief economist update: Three minutes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2018
Three out of three central banks kept monetary settings unchanged at their most recent meetings - what's more important is where the central banks think we are and where they plan to take us. The minutes of the meetings of the Reserve Bank of Australia ...

Chief economist update: Euro's uptrend is a downtrend risk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2018
While none expected a change in monetary policy, not a few anticipated ECB president Mario Draghi to deliver a less dovish message (at the very least) after the European Central Bank's first governing council meeting for 2018. Perhaps, the underlying ...