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When Japan is blah, the Eurozone is ugh and China is wow

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2015
... Financial Standard forum last week. The videos and presentations are now available to download on FSiTV. Chris Probyn, chief economist at $3 trillion investment giant State Street Global Advisors kickstarted the forum with an unflinching view on Europe. ...

Economists divided over Europe growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015
... going to follow the growth trend in the United States in only two years? Economists at the Financial Standard Chief Economist Forum expressed different views on the future of the old continent. "They are dead in the water and they are going to stay that ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015
... "Investors are worried that falling commodity prices could lead to a deflationary period," said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Rockwell Global Capital. Cardillo said earnings have been "pretty much okay" a stream of reports encompassing a ...

Government to blame for fall in business confidence

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
... direction because businesses have been disappointed at the government's performance, Bank of America Merryll Lynch chief economist Saul Eslake said at the Financial Standard Chief Economist Forum in Sydney. Eslake said that better business conditions ...

Think of China as the new America

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015
... became to America. You've got to sell them different things and different services now." The debate was moderated by economist Tim Harcourt and it also included insights by Principal Global Investors' chief global economist Bob Baur, Financial Services ...

Reasons to cheer amid gloomy predictions

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2015
... domestic housing boom reaching its peak, construction is set to see "a record year," Bank of America Merrill Lynch chief economist Saul Eslake told Financial Standard. Perpetual head of investment market research Matt Sherwood said that "companies exposed ...

AMP Capital issues deflation warning

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2015
AMP Capital head of investment strategy and chief economist Shane Oliver has warned investors to be wary of deflation but is optimistic that any ill effects will be short-lived. "In the current environment sustained deflation could cause problems. Falling ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2015
... per cent in an AFP survey. "The 2014 GDP result is better than market expectations and barely missed the target," ANZ economist Liu Li-Gang said. "This result is not too bad." However, the country's National Bureau of Statistics chief, Ma Jiantang, told ...

I'm with Bill

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2015
... revised from 3.4% in June - from 2.6% in 2014, with risk tilted to the downside, eloquently summarised by its chief economist, Kaushik Basu, thus: "Risks to the global outlook remain tilted downwards. Weak global trade growth is anticipated to persist ...

Nearly there?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2015
... Gentle readers already know my views on this. But don't take it from moi, let's call in the greater minds. IMF chief economist Olivier Blanchard argues that the decline in oil would prove to be a "shot in the arm for the global economy" which would boost ...