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Chief economist update: Three minutes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2018
... be gradual and "data dependent - i.e. inflation continuing to improve towards the ECB's medium-term outlook. While the Eurozone's growth momentum is clearly strengthening, the euro's appreciation could limit/reverse the slow progress the ECB has achieved ...

Chief economist update: Euro's uptrend is a downtrend risk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2018
... estimate took the expansion up to 2.5% -- the fastest growth rate since the 3.4% rate recorded in exactly one decade. The Eurozone ended 2017 with a big bang. The latest Markit Economics manufacturing PMI survey shows that it's starting 2018 with a bigger ...

Chief economist update: Red light on greenback

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2018
... to reduce their allocations to the US and into other economies; shifting monetary policy expectations in Japan and the Eurozone (although still denied by officials) as against the Fed's telegraphed gradual and gentle policy tightening; concerns over ...

Chief economist update: ECB sees low rates for longer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 JAN 2018
... euro exchange rate and the Euro Stoxx-50 index since the middle of last year underscores investors' optimism for the Eurozone economy. The Euro Stoxx-50 index returned 6.5% in 2017 and has risen by 3.1% in the first two weeks of January 2018. This also ...

Chief economist update: Bond sell bomb shell

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2018
... estimates the US economy advancing from 2.3% last year to 2.5% in 2018 before slowing to 2.2% in 2019 and 2% in 2020; the Eurozone from 2.4% in 2017 to 2.1% this year to 1.7% in 2019 and 1.5% in 2020; and Japan from 1.7% to 1.3% to 0.8% to 0.5%, respectively. ...

Happier New Year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2018
... highest level in a decade (+1.0%); the Nikkei-225 to its best in more than a quarter of a century (+4.2%). While the Eurozone's major equity market benchmark - the Stoxx 50 index - only managed to climb to a three-week high it's 3.0% return over the ...

Eurozone low-flation to 2020

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 DEC 2017
Final estimates of Eurozone HICP (harmonised index of consumer prices) inflation added credence to the European Central Bank's (ECB) most recent forward guidance indicating that euro area interest rates will remain on ice until at least the third quarter ...

All up and all together now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2017
... current indications are on the ball, the fourth quarter will be better. Year-on-year GDP growth rates in the US, the Eurozone, Japan, the UK and India all accelerated in the September quarter from the previous one. China's GDP remained unchanged at 6.9% ...

ECB schedules taper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2017
... strengthening growth momentum, inflation remains below the bank's objective - below but close to 2%. Recent stats bear this out. Eurozone GDP growth accelerated to 2.3% in the year to the June quarter. This is the fastest growth rate since the March ...

ECB exit: 2018 or 2021?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2017
... (58.1 from 57.4); services (55.8 from 54.7) - and more recently, the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) sharp upgrade to Eurozone GDP growth. In its October 2017 World Economic Outlook (WEO) report, the IMF lifted its GDP forecasts to 2.1% this year ...