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Chief economist update: Oil market slides from bull to bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2019
... sentiment over the global growth outlook and therefore, oil demand. Taken alongside, supply disruptions/sanctions in Venezuela, Libya, Iran and others, plus the implementation of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Russia and ...

Chief economist update: The bad oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently released its World Economic Outlook April report where it slashed its global growth projections to 3.3% this year, down from 3.5% forecast in January and from 3.7% predicted in its October 2018 outlook ...

OPEC is not to blame

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2018
Saudi Arabia and Russia weren't pleased with US President Trump when they announced no immediate increase in oil production following the OPEC and non-OPEC nations meeting in Algiers on September 23. The decision sent oil prices soaring - Brent ...

Chief economist update: A new currency is born

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2018
... there, it's a three thousand four hundred and sixty four percent) bump up in your wages? Pack your bags and move to Venezuela! You'll have to thank Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro for this generosity. This means that the average pay of three ...

Instos chasing EM debt for value

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2018
... while: synchronised global growth. In EM, there's only one country that will likely remain in recession and that is Venezuela." GSFM operates as the Australian distribution partner for Payden & Rygel, whose EM debt analyst Darren Capeloto added: "In ...

Oil's gift to central bankers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 NOV 2017
... in the entire world daily. Saudi Arabia has the second-largest reserves of naturally occurring oil in the world after Venezuela. It is estimated that Saudi Arabia's oil resources amount to 260 billion barrels of oil". It's not surprising therefore that ...

Trump-flation returns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2017
... versus the NFL, Trump versus Alec Baldwin and more recently, Trump versus the new "axis of evil" - North Korea, Iran and Venezuela (USA Today) - the list goes on. Trump's propensity to alienate almost everyone (including his own GOP party) should be ...

Asia already benefiting from fall in oil prices

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
... the country's terms of trade and current account deficit. BlackRock also said that emerging market producers such as Venezuela, Russia and several Gulf nations are "likely to suffer" and to "come under intense pressure, which is only likely to grow the ...

Sliding oil price would stop the slide in the oil price

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
... bank. As a result, they can withstand a low oil price quite comfortably. On the other hand countries such as Nigeria, Venezuela and Iran are hard up. Their oil industries have less favourable costs. They cannot afford for the oil price to sag as it has ...

Venezuelan market rally under question

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
... stars - er, dollars - from the Dow's 117.7% surge from the bottom plumbed on 9 March 2009. But over the same period, the Venezuela's SE General Index, the benchmark equity market index increased by an exponential 1,549.4% (more than a thousand fold). ...
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