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No tears for China's disappointing data

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2016
... 8.5% in the year to December. This is also better than expectations for a 9.3% increase. Overall, the data suggest that Beijing still has more work to do in rebalancing the economy towards domestic consumption and away from fixed investment (and exports) ...

Market confidence marches in March

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2016
... easing coming their way, and soon, from the ECB and the BOJ. The PBOC has just lowered its RRR and more are expected from Beijing in the way of both fiscal and monetary actions after the National People's Congress' concludes. In addition, although the ...

Crouching services, contracting manufacturing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2016
... continues to lose momentum and that more needs to be done. Here, the Politburo's upcoming "liang hui" (two meetings) in Beijing becomes particularly important. China People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) will open on the 3rd of March and ...

China's green shoots

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2016
... The Australian equity market's reaction to better-than-expected Chinese trade data shows just how dependent Ozland is on Beijing. The All Ordinaries index closed 1.2% in the green - the first rise after seven straight days of declines this year - after ...

China's January effect

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2016
... concern for most investors everywhere. This is because of its negative implication over the country's growth outlook - i.e, Beijing's off to fight the currency war to boost its exports and therefore, growth. Or it could be that it's given up the fight ...

Christmas in October

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2015
... China (PBOC) did one better - it went and announced further policy easing Friday to commence the following day - ahead of Beijing's 5th Plenum (26-29 October) where central command deliberates on and sets its 13th Five-Year Plan. Effective 24 October ...

China should have hardlanded

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015
... So there, TE got it's very sharp growth slowdown. However, what the latest set of China's economic numbers show is that Beijing is bagging success in its effort to rebalance the economy away from trade and investment and into domestic consumption. Yes ...

China puts another one in the bag

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2015
... forecasts to 0.6% and 1.0% in 2015 and 2016, respectively. A nice seque into China's continued point scoring against Japan. Beijing dislodged Tokyo as the second biggest economy in the world back in 2010 and took the same throne in terms of share market ...

Comparative advantage

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2015
... backflips again overnight on concerns over dropping commodity prices on concerns over slowing China. Those concerns grew after Beijing's National Bureau of Statistics reported that declining producer prices, reduced investment returns and foreign exchange ...

China syndrome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2015