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Chief economist update: A pretty portrait of an emerging market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2019
... same period. Normally, a depreciating currency would boost equity prices. The rationale being a cheaper currency boosts exports and company profits et cetera. But in the case of Manila, the peso's depreciation compounded the inflationary pressure ...

Brexit is history: Chief Economists Forum

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2019
... actually an economic view." Explaining his thinking, Tinker said the Mayor of Calais - the main port of entry for British exports heading to Europe - was unlikely to thwart the arrival of British exports simply if an agreement wasn't reached. Tinker ...

Asia Funds Passport takes flight

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
... executive Sally Loane said. "Addressing Australia's complex, uncompetitive tax system will enable the Passport to promote the exports of Australian funds." Loane praised the ARFP, and said the initiative was the result of a decade of co-operation by ...

Chief economist update: US consumer sentiment cops bullet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2019
"Not happy, Jan!" For the young ones, the quote refers to Telstra's "yellow pages" advertisement back in the days before the internet, when you, I and Irene scoured through pages and pages (two volumes of it) of listings to buy stuff or get our ...

Budget surplus unlikely as economy stalls: Fitch

OSKAH DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2019
... China's shift from heavy industry investments, which Fitch Solutions believes "bodes poorly" for Australian mining exports and revenue. As mining made a large portion of the government's unexpected 2018 revenue increase, it is possible that exports ...

Chief economist update: A prelude to a rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2018
... where GDP slowed to an annual rate of 2.8% in the September quarter (from 3.1% in the previous one) - bears this out with exports contributing zilch to third quarter GDP. Sure, the contribution from net exports was positive 0.3 percentage points but ...

Chief economist update: RBA more likely to cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2018
... US-China trade war got a stay of execution over the weekend (Trump will hold off from raising the 10% tariff on Chinese exports to 25% on 1 January 2019, provided a comprehensive deal is reached within 90 days) - the growth momentum is slowing. China's ...

Chief economist update: Predictions allude to frozen RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2018
... years, before slowing in 2020 - the RBA's economic outlook puts this at 3.0% by end-2020 -- due to slower growth in exports of resources." (November 6 monetary policy statement). The RBA is also more optimistic with regards to the unemployment rate ...

Chief economist update: The Middle Kingdom's middling growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2018
... happens in the economy of the Middle Kingdom will flow through into ours. Austrade data shows we shipped 29.6% of our total exports to China in FY 2016/17. In turn, exports account for more than 20% of the Australian economy (World Bank data). So what's ...

Chief economist update: Eurozone growth slowing fast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2018
... low. Chris Williamson, chief business economist at HIS Markit, explains that: "The slowdown is being led by a drop in exports, linked in turn by many survey respondents to trade wars and tariffs, which appears to have darkened the global economic environment ...