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Chief economist update: A busy 2020 for Abe, BOJ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2020
... 2020 and 1.7% in 2021 - both raised by 0.1 pps. The World Bank report was a bit kinder on Japan, so it seems. Japanese GDP growth is expected to accelerate to 1.1% in 2019 - an upward revision of 0.3 pps - from 0.8% in 2018 and has left its forecast ...

China's growth to slow: PIMCO

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JAN 2020
PIMCO is forecasting a slowdown in China's GDP growth in 2020 as tensions between the Asian nation and the United States continue into the New Year. The company's global economic advisor, Joachim Fels, and chief investment officer global fixed income ...

Chief economist update: Changing to Lagarde

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019
... September's forecast of 1.1%), 1.1% in 2020 (from 1.2%), and 1.4% in both 2021 (from 1.4%) and 2022. Eurozone real GDP growth expanded by 1.2% in the year to the September 2019 quarter - the same growth rate as in the June quarter. HICP inflation ...

Chief economist update: Has the Fed conquered the yield curve?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2019
... leading to persistent caution in the real economy and potentially the return of market jitters; and, more importantly for GDP growth, (2) that employment growth will slow through 2020". That's the Fed expecting no more rate cuts in 2020 versus Westpac's ...

Chief economist update: Eurozone negative rates a failure?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2019
... had been successful. I didn't dub him Super Mario for nothing (yes, I was the first to call him that!). Eurozone GDP growth started to improve from the recession borne of Grexit and fears of contagion in 2013 to a peak of 3.0% annual growth in the ...

Chief economist update: Australian economy gently turning which way?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2019
... gets as the details of the Australian National Accounts provide sobering reading. At the margin, the country's GDP growth rate has slowed to 0.4% in the three months to September from 0.6% in the previous three-month period. This is weaker-than-market ...

Chief economist update: The Grinch steals Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2019
... Markets are currently pricing another rate cut by February 2020. This suggests that the RBA expects to get to its 3% GDP growth; 5% unemployment rate and 2% inflation by cutting interest rates one more time... at least. This, too, is predicated on the ...

Chief economist update: As low as Lowe will go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2019
... inflation. This is consistent with the RBA's forecasts in its November 'Statement on Monetary Policy" (SoMP) - GDP growth of 2.75% in 2020 and inflation of 1.75% (and of course, that footnote where it assumes another 25bps cut in interest rates ...

Chief economist update: Let's talk about debt

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2019
... economics, after all, is an inexact science because of the thousand and more factors that go into producing a single GDP growth number. As 2020 rolls on, we could find the OECD upgrading Australia's growth forecast in line with the RBA or the Australian ...

Chief economist update: Cloudy 2020 vision for OECD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2019
... in May 2019) this year and 3.0% (down from 3.4%) in 2020. The Institution's latest report (November) has world GDP growth downgrade another notch to 2.9% by the end of the 2020, warning that: "Growth could be weaker still if downside risks materialise ...