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Chief economist update: Fundamentally overvalued

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020
... Australian annual GDP growth over those two years averaged 3.6% (compared with the latest reading of 1.7%); headline inflation at 2.9% (1.7%); the unemployment rate at 4.6% (5.2%); wages growth at 4.1% (2.2%); and, retail spending at 6.8% (3.3%). The ...

Chief economist update: Brexit - the news that was

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020
... the UK Parliament at that. Bank of England (BOE) governor Mark Carney cares. In his speech at the BOE's Future of Inflation Targeting Conference in London, Carney remarked: "The economy has been sluggish, slack has been growing, and inflation is ...

2020: Year of the fragile economy

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2020
... good intentions, can dampen investment and growth, worsen poverty outcomes, and lead to heavier fiscal burdens". While inflation has declined in many of these emerging economies, the World Bank has warned that global fiscal pressures and rising debt ...

Chief economist update: Moving target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JAN 2020
... last year from 2.5% to 1.75%. The stats show that half of its dual mandate - full employment and stable (2% target) inflation - is responding. The US unemployment rate is at a 50-year low of 3.5% (November 2019) but inflation as measured by the Fed's ...

China's growth to slow: PIMCO

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JAN 2020
... projects a fiscal "thrust" of around 1% of GDP. "The People's Bank of China is effectively on hold in an effort to anchor inflation expectations over the cyclical horizon, although it is possible to see small symbolic increments of interest rate cuts ...

Gold lifts as US, Iran tensions escalate

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 7 JAN 2020
... further, it would likely require some combination of general US dollar weakness, lower interest rates and a spike in inflation expectations - via higher oil prices and/or concerns of a negative spill-over to global growth." Despite this, Eliseo said ...

Modest but meaningful growth on the horizon: Aviva

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 7 JAN 2020
... should pick up to around 3.25% in 2020, up from 3% [in 2019]. This is still below potential, implying that already-muted inflation pressures are likely to remain so for the foreseeable future," Aviva said. "Risks are more balanced than three months ago ...

Chief economist update: Changing to Lagarde

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019
... growth expanded by 1.2% in the year to the September 2019 quarter - the same growth rate as in the June quarter. HICP inflation has quickened to 1.0% in the year to November after slowing to a three-year low of 0.7% in the previous month. Eurosystem ...

Chief economist update: Has the Fed conquered the yield curve?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2019
... policy is well positioned to serve the American people by supporting continued economic growth, a strong job market, and inflation near our symmetric 2% goal," he said. Ergo, "...the current stance of monetary policy will support sustained growth, a ...

Chief economist update: A penny saved, a penny not earned by the economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2019
... also leads to heavy discounting as businesses try to preserve their market share. In turn, putting downward pressure on inflation and inflation expectations that encourage further reduction in spending - prices would be the same or lower in the future ...