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Chief economist update: Nikkei not so fine

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2021
... all weakened in January. So what's keeping the Japanese stockmarket buoyant? The usual suspects are there: vaccine optimism; relaxation of restrictions in some countries; fiscal and monetary policy accommodation, etc. Nah, it's the BOJ stupid ...

Chief economist update: RBA extends QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2021
... end-2019 level by the middle of this year." Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi! However, the RBA's action betrays its optimism. While the RBA kept interest rate settings unchanged - official cash rate and yield on 3-year Australian government bonds ...

Chief economist update: Jobs, jobs, jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2021
... wonderful set of numbers could start a virtuous cycle in the domestic economy whereby rising employment boosts consumer optimism, stimulating spending, lifting company sales and profits, encouraging business spending in plant and machinery and staff ...

Chief economist update: China on my mind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2021
... GDP). It's only gonna get better. The coronavirus vaccine presently being distributed in parts of the world provides optimism that covid-19, too, shall pass. Australia may not start inoculating its population until late February/early March but with ...

Chief economist update: No pandemic on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2021
... and business restrictions wrought by the coronavirus. Wall Street's 2020 rally is perfectly rationale given vaccine optimism and the end of President Donald Trump's term in office. But underlying all these are America's aggressive fiscal ...

Chief economist update: Greed is good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2020
... uncertainty with Joe Biden's victory (give it up Donald, you can't deal your way into victory this time) and vaccine optimism. They'll surely be game changers. In the meantime, Wall Street's back to the bad news is good news meme witnessed ...

Chief economist update: David Australia versus Goliath China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2020
... scenario, GDP is expected to grow by around 5% next year and 4% over 2022," the RBA said. The Australian central bank's optimism was almost immediately backed up by the 'OECD Economic Outlook, December 2020' report released on the same day ...

Chief economist update: Australian capex in COVID-19's shadow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2020
... Expenditure and Expected Expenditure" quarterly survey, for not only does it provide an indication of domestic firms' optimism towards future growth, it, itself, is a driving component of that growth. Certainly, there will be some nuances but because ...

Chief economist update: Iron ore to reduce Aussie deficit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2020
... wonderful set of numbers could start a virtuous cycle in the domestic economy whereby rising employment boosts consumer optimism, stimulating spending, lifting company sales and profits, encouraging business spending in plant and machinery and staff ...

Chief economist update: The virus, the vaccine and Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2020
... it" speculations on Fed policy decisions BC (before COVID) - but it appears that the dying days of 2020 swing between optimism and pessimism depending on which side of the bed financial market participants get up on on the day. Get up on the wrong side ...