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Chief economist update: Arrivederci Signor Draghi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2019
... ECB's quantitative easing launched in March 2015. Looking back, these allowed the Eurozone economy to stabilise - GDP growth reached a high of 2.8% in the third quarter of 2017 and HICP inflation accelerated to as fast as 2.3% by October 2018. The ...

Chief economist update: Is the A$ becoming a safe-haven currency?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2019
... otherwise? Latest business and consumer sentiment surveys are down and the IMF has recently slashed Australia's GDP growth forecasts by 0.5 percentage points to 1.7% this year and by 0.4 pps to 2.3% in 2020. That's way more than the 0.2 and 0.1 ...

No room for policy mistakes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2019
... the WTO projects world merchandise trade to slow from 3.0% in 2018 to 1.2% this year, resulting in a deceleration in GDP growth (at market exchange rates) to 2.3% from 2.8% last year. But this isn't a game of who gets to spook the markets first rather ...

Leaving a legacy

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2019
... recent years, we have narrowed the focus down even further. We have a view that Australia's 20-odd years of unbroken GDP growth has twinned with migrant growth and the skills they brought. We continue to underline education in the Indigenous community ...

Chief economist update: Brexit uncertainty is not all that bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2019
... that the UK economy will slip into a recession in the third quarter have been eased by stronger-than-expected monthly GDP growth figures. The report shows that after contracting by 0.2% in the June quarter, GDP grew by 0.4% in the month of July and 0.1% ...

Chief economist update: Synchronised forecasts for a synchronised slowdown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2019
... the WTO projects world merchandise trade to slow from 3.0% in 2018 to 1.2% this year, resulting in a deceleration in GDP growth (at market exchange rates) to 2.3% from 2.8% last year. Surprise, surprise but all four international institutions recommend ...

Chief economist update: China's great leap forward 70 years in the making

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019
... raining on the Politburo's parade - both threatening to further weaken China's already slowing growth. Chinese GDP growth slowed to 6.2% in the year to second quarter from 6.4% in the first. This is still within the government's 2019 growth ...

Chief economist update: Future path of fed funds rate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2019
... assessments of appropriate monetary policy comes amid very little change in the Fed's economic projections. While 2019 GDP growth was revised a tad higher to 2.2% (from 2.1% in the June projections), the Fed still sees the economy growing at 2.0% ...

Chief economist update: Germany in the budget's shadow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2019
... mounting. In Germany - Europe and the Eurozone's largest economy - another recession is just one quarter away. German GDP growth contracted by 0.1% in the June 2019 quarter after expanding by 0.4% in the first quarter, more than halving the annual ...

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

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2019
... More disturbing, take away the 0.5 percentage point contribution from "government consumption" to the 0.5% quarterly GDP growth rate and the economy would have grown by zilch (0%). Factor in the 0.3 pps contribution from imports - an addition to GDP ...