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Chief economist update: Japan's five minutes of sunshine

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2020
... quarter-on-quarter (from -8.3%) and its year-on-year rate of contraction has eased to minus 5.8% from negative 10.2% in the June quarter. The details are even better with the National Accounts showing that household consumption contributed 2.7 percentage ...

Chief economist update: China keeps on going and going

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2020
... recession. After contracting by 6.8% in the year to the March 2020 quarter, China's GDP expanded by 3.2% in the June quarter and strengthened even more to 4.9% in the September quarter. The latest Caixin China PMI surveys portend the growing times ...

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

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2020
It wasn't that long ago when financial markets expended much speculation on the outcome of the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) "Private New Capital Expenditure and Expected Expenditure" quarterly survey, for not only does it provide an ...

Chief economist update: Iron ore to reduce Aussie deficit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2020
... succumbing to the recession that has struck most nations around the world. Chinese GDP grew by 3.2% in the year to the June quarter after contracting by 6.8% in the first. Recent stats indicate the economy continuing to move onwards and upwards. The ...

Chief economist update: China's vote for US president

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2020
... still under. After contracting by 6.8% in the year to the March 2020 quarter, China's GDP expanded by 3.2% in the June quarter and strengthened even more to 4.9% in the September quarter. Latest PMI surveys indicate that the fourth quarter would ...

Chief economist update: The recession is over

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2020
... exception of Victoria indicates that the 6.7 percentage point household spending subtracted from national output in the June quarter would not be repeated in the September quarter. However, the recovery in domestic demand suggests that net exports (exports ...

Chief economist update: Japan's second wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2020
... previous one (also an 11-year low). But with a hole as deep as the 28.1% annualised rate of contraction in GDP in the June quarter - the worst on record -- the fresh prime minister of Japan has his work cut out for him. The severity of the June quarter ...

Cash no longer king

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2020
... he said. In addition, $671 million flowed into Australian fixed income ETFs, nearly three times the amount in the June quarter. The Australian ETF industry had nearly $5 billion in new inflows in the quarter, bringing the ETF industry to $71 billion ...

Chief economist update: Middle Kingdom on top

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2020
China's cruel to be kind policy continues to pay dividends. Criticised and condemned they may be, but the swift and continued improvement in the economy prove that the Politburo's draconian restriction and lockdown measures implemented at the ...

Chief economist update: Lowe taking interest rates lower

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2020
... incomes but recent data show that these have been mostly saved - the household savings ratio soared to 19.8% in the June quarter from 6.0% in the March quarter and 3.6% in the three months ended December 2019. To quote governor Lowe: "What are people ...