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Chief economist update: This land is ours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2019
... has grown to 17.4% (as at 2018) from 13.9% in 2008. This comes on the back of an already slowing economy. Hong Kong GDP growth slowed to 0.5% in the year to the June 2019 quarter from 0.6% in the first. This is less than market expectations, the fist ...

Chief economist update: The fear of Brexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2019
... (-0.1%) - the EU's biggest economy - and Italy's - the third biggest economy -- has stalled. The Eurozone's GDP growth, itself, has decelerated from 0.4% in the first quarter to 0.2% in the third quarter. US GDP growth slowed to an annualised ...

Super debate too one dimensional: Rice Warner

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2019
... whilst the trend in most other countries is up," Rice Warner noted. "The future experience is conditional on strong real GDP growth of 2.5% p.a. in the long term, which is itself dependent on continued immigration which slows down the impact of population ...

Chief economist update: US recession a sure thing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 AUG 2019
... points, and indeed has been in the negative range since August. Projecting forward using past values of the spread and GDP growth suggests that real GDP will grow at about a 1.7% rate over the next year." As it turned out, US GDP contracted at annualised ...

Chief economist update: The UK is not OK

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2019
When it met on August 1, the Bank of England (BOE) rightly anticipated slower GDP growth in the second quarter, saying: "After growing by 0.5% in 2019 Q1, GDP is expected to have been flat in Q2... reflecting both the impact of intensifying Brexit-related ...

Chief economist update: Race to the bottom redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2019
... downward pressure on their domestic economic growth and inflation. "The members discussed the recent slower domestic GDP growth and the impact of slowing global demand on New Zealand through the trade, financial and confidence channels. The members noted ...

Chief economist update: Currency manipulators beware

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2019
... spent inside the US of A instead of leaking to other countries through purchases of imported products and services. US GDP growth of 4%-6% here America comes! Yippee-kay-yay! Trump's promise made, Trump's promise delivered. This state of "booming" ...

Chief economist update: The back-to-back rate cuts Australia has to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2019
... inflation (1.4% average of trimmed mean and weighted median in the March quarter) from target (mid-point of 2%-3%), GDP growth (1.8%% in Q1 2019) from potential (3%) and the neutral cash rate of 1.5% then, the nominal official cash rate should be at ...

Chief economist update: ECB to leave no policy tool unturned

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2019
... conditions... The whole range of instruments is on the table." The ECB has every reason to be concerned. Euro area GDP growth has remained at a six-year low of 1.2% in the year to the March quarter after - down sharply from the 2.8% year-on-year rate ...

Chief economist update: BOE lets peers do the heavy lifting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2019
... conditioned on a path for Bank Rate that rose to around 1% by the end of the forecast period." In those projections, GDP growth was a little below potential during 2019 as a whole, reflecting subdued global growth and ongoing Brexit uncertainties. Growth ...