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Chief economist update: Fed's on target, BOJ takes out target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2018
... Committee is monitoring inflation developments closely" that was there in March. I could only guess this is because the US economy is evolving in line with the Fed's expectations. Ergo, the three interest rate hikes this year that the Fed forward guided ...

Chief economist update: The colour of Beige

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2018
... Report. The "book" isn't made up of figures and numbers and stats but instead anecdotal evidence on the state of the US economy. They are compiled by the Federal Reserve Bank's in each of 12 Federal Districts and is published approximately two weeks ...

Chief economist update: Can't get enough of war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2018
... United States and having engaged in persistent, one-sided intervention in foreign exchange markets." True, this. But the US economy is experiencing a trade deficit because it's growing by much more than these countries: US GDP per capita grew by 15.8% ...

Chief economist update: Just a hiccup in a rising trend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2018
... Street's direction but they sure do impact overall economic growth - consumer spending accounts for around 70% of the US economy. Confident consumers spend. Increased consumer spending buoys economic growth, corporate profits and a higher Wall Street ...

Chief economist update: It's not just the trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2018
... optimistic outlook comes to fruition. The recently-autographed tax cuts ensure this. However, this also ensures that the US economy would expand stronger than its trading partners - read, it would be buying more goods and services from abroad that would ...

Chief economist update: Plotting the dots

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2018
... guidance of three interest rate hikes this year? Or will it be four or more given the strengthening momentum in the US economy? Or less, given the general uncertainty emanating from Trump's White House? We'll soon find out. For it's also at this month's ...

Pre-retirees lack confidence about retirement: Qantas Super

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2018
... older were the most secure about retirement savings. More than half of the participants felt external factors like US economy, rising cost of living, and regulation changes affected their ability to save for retirement. "We are among the best retirement ...

Chief economist update: The uncertainty that is Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2018
... of hope, it was the winter of despair," Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities. It still is the best of times for the US economy for in spite of President Donald Trump's micro-management the S&P 500 index remains 3.4% in the green so far this year and ...

Chief economist update: Trump spoils for war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2018
... nuclear, currency and trade. But - as the song goes - war is good for absolutely nothing. Case in point. To aid the US economy out of the 1930's Depression, the government enacted the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act on 17 June 1930. It increased the tariffs ...

Chief economist update: The Fed's force is with us

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2018
... prophecy about inflation lifting "this year" will come true. There's no question that given strengthening momentum in the US economy, full employment and wages on the up and up, that eventually, inflation would lift. The freshly-signed tax cuts ensure ...