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Chief economist update: Foolish takeaway on US-China talks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2019
... me -- you can't get fooled again." - former US President George W. Bush, Nashville, Tenn., 17 September 2002. Yes Virginia, it was the stuff that brought "Bushism" into our collective consciousness. Of course, we all know what George W. was on about ...

Chief economist update: The budget surplus can wait

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2019
... $113,404m. This is 10.7% higher than Estimate 3 for 2018-19. Estimate 3 is 14.9% higher than Estimate 2 for 2019-20." Yes Virginia, Australian businesses have upped their capital spending plans in the face of multiplying challenges - trade war, global ...

Chief economist update: The fear of Brexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2019
... English philosopher, statesman and essayist - mother tongue, "The pomp of death alarms us more than death itself." Yes Virginia, you know where I'm going with this. Brexit - the "no-deal" variety - is all but assured. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's ...

Chief economist update: RBA heading to zero

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2019
... psychological threshold of CNY7.0/US$1) highlights just how determined the US president is to win the trade war. Yes Virginia, China's officially a "currency manipulator" in America's eyes - not when it was intervening to keep the yuan from depreciating ...

Chief economist update: Look out below

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2019
... Korea - both countries removing each other from their respective trade "white list" (preferred list of exporters). Yes Virginia, Trump has managed to turn close neighbours against each other. Trump must have read General George Patton's words: "The ...

Chief economist update: Another RBA rate cut should be enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2019
... with not one, not two but three more rate reductions - two this year to 0.75% and one by June next year to 0.5%. Yes Virginia, you, I and Irene would dump the A$ too given these expectations. But just as we've proven the markets and "expert economists" ...

Chief economist update: RBA May cut, May not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2019
... profits and lending capacity without doing much to boost the economy", as published in the Australian Financial Review. Yes Virginia, they're looking out for number one (politicking?), of course. I trust the RBA enough not to give in to vested interests ...

Chief economist update: The Fed pause that refreshes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2019
... their former peaks overnight. And the Dow is not far behind - it's off a mere 0.6% away from its all-time high. Yes Virginia, you can be forgiven for scratching your head, for it was just a month ago that fears of an upcoming US recession was the ...

Chief economist update: Prepare for lift-off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2019
... foresee as the re-starting of the engines of global growth, we'll all know that this started with the Powell pause. Yes Virginia, I've turned into Dr. Doom's (Nouriel Roubini's) mini-me since the second half of 2018. How could anyone ...

Chief economist update: The RBA capitulates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2019
... fell by nine basis points to 1.71%; five-years down by 10 bps to 1.78%; and, 10-year bonds are 6 bps lower to 2.18%. Yes Virginia, with a mere shift in the RBA's guidance to N-E-U-T-R-A-L, yields have fallen across the curve. But special mention ...