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Chief economist update: Did the BOE just announce taper?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2021
... fall, the vaccination programme was proceeding apace, and restrictions on economic activity were easing." As such, it said: "GDP is expected to recover strongly to pre-COVID levels over the remainder of this year in the absence of most restrictions on ...

Schroders launches new fund

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2021
... "The share of Chinese equities in global benchmark indices is still relatively low when compared with China's share of global GDP and in our view, it could be beneficial for investors to increase their exposure to this region as opposed to waiting for ...

Chief economist update: Japan's elusive virtuous cycle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2021
... despite introducing QQE with Yield Curve Control and Negative Interest Rates in 2016. But I digress. While the BOJ upgraded its GDP growth forecasts in its April 2021 Outlook report - 4.0% in 2021 (from 3.9% predicted in January 2021) and 2.4% (from ...

Chief economist update: A date with the RBA in July

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2021
... parameters of the Term Funding Facility and the government bond purchase program". As expected, it lifted Australia's GDP growth forecast to 4.75% this year - now in line with both the OECD and IMF's latest projections - from 3.5% it predicted ...

Chief economist update: COVID-19 causes double-dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2021
... variants and the slow pace of vaccinations. Preliminary estimates released by Eurostat show the single-currency region's GDP contracted by 0.6% in the three months to March 2021. This followed the December 2020 quarter's 0.7% contraction - satisfying ...

Chief economist update: Not yet time to make a change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2021
... be registered if the quarterly change were maintained for a full year - both the IMF and the OECD's most recent 2021 US GDP growth forecasts are on the ball, at 6.4% and 6.5%, respectively. The conventional year-over-year measure also provides reason ...

Chief economist update: Bank of Canada walks the talk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2021
... optimism is collectively embodied by upward revisions in the 'OECD Economic Outlook, Interim Report March 2021' - "Global GDP growth is now projected to be 5.6% this year, an upward revision of more than 1 percentage point from the December OECD ...

Government debt blows out 420%

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2021
... rapidly growing Asian market, government debt has skyrocketed 420%, the study found. This means that the country's debt-to-GDP ratio in 2020 reached 55%, which is still among the lowest in the developed world. Hong Kong and South Korea recorded similar ...

Chief economist update: Copper 10,000

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2021
... support. In its latest World Economic Outlook (WEO) released in April, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicted world GDP to expand from -- 3.3% last year to 6.0% in 2021 and 4.4% in 2022 -- representing a 0.5 and 0.2 percentage point upgrade ...

Chief economist update: Europa rides the bull once again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2021
... Eurozone's economic growth outlook by both the OECD and the IMF. The OECD's March 2021 "Interim Outlook Forecasts" has Eurozone GDP growing by 3.9% this year - up from 3.6% it forecast it December - and 3.8% in 2022 - up from 3.3%. Similarly ...