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Multi-boutique warns of fourth quarter reckoning

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2020
... and monetary stimulus will be needed to avoid the worst, she said. "The bountiful government support packages around the world were initially considered temporary financing, but it seems that policy support will be here to stay for a while," Shah said. ...

Chief economist update: Easing restrictions narrow oil demand-supply equation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2020
... standstill, factories and non-essential businesses in lockdown, OPEC plus could lop another 10% off global supply and the world will still be drowning in the black stuff. What a difference a month makes. Easing containment restrictions in an increasing ...

Chief economist update: Annus horribilis with a vengeance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020
... deal with the GFC and Grexit and Brexit. Andrew Bailey, who succeeded Carney effective 16 March 2020 (three days after the World Health Organisation declared the coronavirus as a pandemic) is now looking at the mother of all recessions (depression?) ...

Chief economist update: Will emerging markets be first to emerge?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... expected. The world is in this together. What a difference three months make. At the start of the year, in its 'World Economic Outlook' (WEO) report, the IMF's (International Monetary Fund) crystal ball predicted that "emerging market and ...

Chief economist update: No escaping the inverted yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2020
... majority of market participants expect no change in US interest rates in 2020. All is well! US recession (and by extension world slowdown) is averted! But the inverted US yield curve is like that commercial ad for Pringles - once you pop, you can't ...

Lloyds profits down 95%

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020
... unprecedented social and economic challenge which is having a significant impact on people and businesses in the UK and around the world," Lloyds Banking Group chief executive Antonio Horta-Osorio said. "The economic outlook is clearly challenging with ...

Junk by name, junk by nature?

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
Junk bonds, despite the unfortunate name, aren't the trash of the investment world, although in the current uncertain environment they sure could be. These credit products are issued by governments and companies, and offer higher rates of return ...

Chief economist update: Stimulus measures ease extreme fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2020
... unemployment rate jumped by nearly a percentage point to 4.4% from 3.5% in February. Based on the IMF's April "World Economic Outlook" report, the worse is yet to come, with the unemployment rate lifting to 10.4% this year and only easing to 9.1% ...

A decade in the dust

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... references," he said. "The projections of a deep global recession from the International Monetary Fund's World Economic Outlook are more worrying for not just economic reasons, but for the social and financial stability of the world. "In a bad scenario ...

Chief economist update: How deep the global recession?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2020
... recently characterised the global economic backdrop that led it to take a chainsaw and lopped off 6.3% from its 2020 world economic growth forecast to minus 3.0% from GDP growth of 3.3% predicted only three months earlier. "This crisis is like no other. ...