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Chief economist update: Coronavirus infects oil market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2020
... withstand without affecting their overall revenues? Higher prices would boost their income but negated by lower output and exports as well as the demand for oil.

Chief economist update: Happy New Year rat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2020
... global economy. The US will benefit from the promised increased purchases from China. China will benefit from increased exports from the easing/reversal of the global growth slowdown. Everybody wins. Latest stats out of China also provide hope. The economy ...

Chief economist update: A busy 2020 for Abe, BOJ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2020
... the value-added tax (VAT) in October last year. The economy is also suffering from acute weakness in manufacturing and exports, particularly those to China, alongside declining consumer confidence." "In response, the government is providing significant ...

2020: Year of the fragile economy

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2020
... slowdown. That said, about a third of these developing economies are projected to decelerate during the year ahead as exports and investments weaken. The outlook is also shadowed by the debt that has been accumulated by these economies, with total debt ...

Rising tensions to weigh on markets: Moody's

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 6 JAN 2020
... uncertain for some time should an outright military conflict start." Moody's predicts that restrictions to oil and gas exports will be effected, impacting not only the middle-east region but also the world. "A lasting conflict would have wide-ranging ...

Chief economist update: Australian economy gently turning which way?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2019
... driven by public spending - government consumption added 0.2 pps to growth; government investment added 0.1 pps - and net exports (exports minus imports) which contributed 0.1 pps). Enough with the details, the bottom line is that "the gentle turning ...

China still positive despite unrest

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2019
... continue," she said. The trade war has had noticeable impacts across emerging markets, most significantly through lower exports and the retrenchment of corporate investments. "There will be no real winners in the trade war. The relationship between the ...

Another winter of Australian discontent

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2019
... five-year average - over the same period. Because of declining crop output, Rabobank expects "another year of limited exports in 2019/20 - the third consecutive year of below-average export volumes". As Dr Kalisch Gordon explains, "Exports are likely ...

AMP, HESTA, Hostplus lose out in ratings

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2019
... they were impressed by Future Super's exclusions of fossil fuels, gambling, tobacco, armaments, nuclear, live animal exports, old growth logging, animal cruelty, bribery, intensive agriculture, environmental destruction, polluting, social harm and ...

Chief economist update: Economy slows to decade low but still tops the pops

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2019
... However, this could be limited by the government's obsession in achieving that ever-elusive Budget SURPLUS. X-M for exports minus imports. Australia should be lauded for expanding its exports (up 1.4% in the June quarter) amid the global economic ...