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Chief economist update: UK not there yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2021
... bank's sanguine forward guidance underpinned these positive reactions in the financial markets. For while the BOE upgraded its GDP growth forecast to 5.5% in the June quarter from the 4.25% estimated in May and forewarned that "CPI inflation is expected ...

Chief economist update: Chinese activity indicators disappoint but growth target intact

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2021
... 13th National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing on the 5th of March this year, Chinese premier Li Kequiang 2021's GDP growth target of over 6%. This compares with consensus expectations - market, the IMF and the OECD - for China's economy ...

Chief economist update: The (dot) plot thickens

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2021
... requires holding rates near zero." True that. The Fed's latest economic projections bear this out, upgrading this year's GDP growth to 7.0% from the 6.5% rate forecast in March, with the unemployment rate steadily improving from 4.5% this year ...

Calls for Royal Commission into housing

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021
... rate policies are insufficient to support macroeconomic stability. Overall household debt has risen substantially relative to GDP from 70% in 1990 to almost 185% by 2020. Some three quarters of this debt is in mortgages and 60% of debt held by Australian ...

Chief economist update: Anchoring the recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2021
... region had significantly improved. So much so, that in its May Economic Outlook report, the OECD upgraded the Eurozone's GDP growth forecasts to 4.3% this year (from 3.6% its predicted in December 2020) and 4.4% in 2022 (from 3.3%). Although still ...

Chief economist update: Deflated expectations lift deflation expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2021
... for the nine months running to -0.1% in the year to April. Certainly, the upward revision in Japan's March 2021 quarter GDP contraction to an annualised rate of 3.9% (from the preliminary estimate of 5.1%) is cause for optimism. Then again, the economy ...

Chief economist update: A delicate balancing act

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUN 2021
... the OECD's upgrade to global growth. In its 'Economic Outlook, May 2021' report, the OECD upgraded its global GDP growth forecast to by 5.8% this year and by 4.4% in 2022. This compares with the 5.6% and 4.0%, respectively, it forecast in ...

Chief economist update: Australia on top

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2021
... quarter of growth since the pandemic-induced recession in the March and June quarters of 2020 - taking the annual growth in GDP up to 1.1% and national output above the level it was before the coronavirus struck. Using the same measure, this beats the ...

Chief economist update: RBA cash rate on ice until 2024

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2021
... Australia's economic recovery has been stronger than expected and would continue to do so. The RBA revised up its 2021 GDP growth forecast to 4.75% (from 3.5% predicted in its February statement). Only a day before, the OECD's 'Economic Outlook' ...

Chief economist update: OECD upgrades global growth but advises continued policy support

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2021
... expansion of the coronavirus vaccine roll-out and the massive fiscal stimulus in the United States. The OECD predicts global GDP to grow by 5.8% this year and by 4.4% in 2022. This compares with the 5.6% and 4.0%, respectively, it forecast in March and ...