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Chief economist update: Great Scott! Mighty Mo to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2020
... the married ones) has put him to task over this. Au contraire, the government's biggest ever stimulus package has economists chopping their forecasts GDP contraction by as much as 80% and their unemployment rate predictions nearly halved from 16% ...

Chief economist update: A whole new world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2020
... long-held theory being shoo'd out by the coronavirus is David Ricardo's theory of competitive advantage, used by economists everywhere to extol the virtue of open borders and the gains from international trade. Sure, it works from the point of ...

Chief economist update: Cash splash

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2020
... certainty of a global recession from turning into a global depression. According to Factset : "A Reuters poll of 40 economists showed a median 80% chance of recession this year, the highest level on record, up 50bps in the past two weeks. The prior high ...

Chief economist update: Coronaphobia sickens Japan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2020
... yen's safe-haven strength, compounds the hit on the Japanese economy, practically ensuring another recession, with economists predicting an annualised contraction of 1.2% in the March quarter this year. There's also the risk that the Tokyo 2020 ...

Chief economist update: The C word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2020
... as the rate of infections multiplied from animal to one human, then one became two, two became four, four became... Economists and analysts were already predicting a sharp slowdown in global growth - due to the expected sharp fall in demand and supply ...

RBA expected to cut again; maybe even tomorrow

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2020
Finder's RBA Cash Rate Survey found 90% of economists believe there will be a rate cut in 2020, with 15% expecting the cut to come tomorrow. Graham Cooke, insights manager at Finder, said 20 economists specifically called out the threat of the coronavirus. ...

Super funds snub millions of Aussies

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2020
... scenarios that are often hard to clearly communicate or understand even between two native English speakers." Compton said economists forecast migrants will contribute $1.6 trillion into the Australian economy by 2050, so the opportunity for revenue ...

Chief economist update: Japan fails to learn from history (yet again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2020
... 3% to 5% in 1997; it was 0.1% before the 2014 tax increase in 2014; and, currently at minus 0.1%. Looking forward, economists and financial markets expect a rebound in Japanese GDP in the March 2020 quarter. That may be but would it be enough to prevent ...

Chief economist update: Lowe puts Australia on high

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2020
... which boosts demand for our exports. So, it is working." Then again, if easier monetary policy is working, why are many economists and the financial markets factoring in at least one more 25 bps RBA rate cut -- that would take the official cash rate ...

Not the time for long-term decisions: Baur

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2020
... bold, long-term calls, according to Principal Global Investors' Bob Baur. Speaking at the Financial Standard Chief Economists Forum in Sydney this morning, Principal Global Investors executive director and chief global economist Bob Baur said world ...