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A year on from Brexit

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2017
It's been 12 months since the Brexit referendum, and Natixis Global Asset Management says the outlook for Brexit has become even more unclear, with Theresa May's failed election manoeuver further muddying the water. Natixis' chief market strategist ...

Investors to benefit from $4tn US infrastructure bill

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUN 2017
... opportunities for investors worldwide, according to BNY Mellon research. The 2017 BNY Mellon Investment Management Alternatives Outlook noted Donald Trump's pledge US$1 trillion to a US infrastructure overhaul has driven up investment appetite for the ...

Oil's not so slick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUN 2017
... since the end of 2016. More worrying is the overall global demand-supply situation. In its June 2017 "Short-Term Energy Outlook" report, the EIA forecasts total world oil supply at 99.43 million bpd and total global demand at 99.37 bpd by the end of ...

Central Banks fail to disappoint

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 JUN 2017
... over the past forthnight and not a single one failed market expectations. Perhaps, the central banks' assessments and outlook are currently in sync with that of the financial markets. This is underscored by Factset's recent report that even the International ...

Confidence: the business/household divide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUN 2017
... conditions between the business and household sectors of the economy. How the disparity resolves itself will be critical to the outlook for growth. Optimists might point to solid levels of employment conditions as providing the much needed catalyst to ...

Better, but not good enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUN 2017
... also answered its own question - "Will risks derail the modest recovery?" - initially posted in March's Interim Economic Outlook. In its June report, the OECD declared that it expects a modest pick-up in global growth - lifting its 2017 forecasts to ...

US labour market covfefe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2017
... the Fed then reconcile its March statement that "the actual path of the federal funds rate will depend on the economic outlook as informed by incoming data" when - as widely expected -- it raises the fed funds rate from 0.7%-1.0% to 1.0% -1.25% in just ...

Just what the doctor ordered

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2017
... headed down, down. I first came across this when I read Michael Wilson's piece on Bloomberg, "The Australian Dollar's Outlook Darkens" (16 May). Back then Michael talked about leveraged long A$ positions for the 6th straight week to 9 May. By the 29th ...

No spend, no inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2017
... year to April from 2.1% in the previous and it appears that the economy is evolving according to the BOJ's optimistic outlook. However, the same increase in inflation shows that real household spending has slowed to -1.4% year-on-year in April from -1.3% ...

Moody's downgraded and upgraded China's ratings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2017
... when it downgraded China's long-term local currency and foreign currency issuer ratings to A1 from Aa3 and changed the outlook to stable from negative - the first downgrade since 1989. Moody's ratings report (published on the 24th of May) explains the ...