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Surplus may not be as advertised: Grattan

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2020
... explained the much touted federal government surplus may not be all it was cracked up to be. Wood focused on an economic outlook from a policy perspective, discussing the fiscal policies the Australian government might be pondering in the near future. ...

Chief economist update: Coronavirus infects oil market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2020
... market has turned from bull to bear and vice-versa (at least twice) over the past year, but the improving global economic outlook towards the end of 2019 sent prices soaring. WTI oil surged by 35.4% in 2019 and Brent oil gained 34%. This is not surprising ...

Overhaul bites Deutsche Bank bottom line

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2020
... €23 billion. Deutsche Bank pointed to the "challenging interest rate environment" and the uncertain "global economic outlook" as key factors impacting revenue growth. Deutsche Bank reduced its investments in risk weighted assets by €18 billion to ...

Uncertainty remains for global outlook: TCorp

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2020
... research from the investment and financial management firm lists the key factors that are most crucial to the global economic outlook, and how TCorp expects them to evolve. Out of the nine key issues, four are from the US including US jobs growth, US ...

Chief economist update: Steady as it was, steady it will be

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2020
... institution's missive "Tentative Stabilization, Sluggish Recovery?" contained in its January 2020 'World Economic Outlook" was all about the Eurozone. "Growth in the euro area is projected to pick up from 1.2 percent in 2019 to 1.3 percent in ...

Light on horizon for global economy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2020
... deliver global gross domestic product growth of 3.3%. The IMF published its expectations in its report titled World Economic Outlook outlining growth is expected to continue into 2021, signs that the global downturn is coming to an end. Outlining the ...

Chief economist update: Bushfires singe growth, surplus predictions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2020
... two headlines caught my attention this morning. The first one is from Reuters (14 January 2020), "Australian economic outlook overshadowed by bushfires, drought: Reuters poll". According to the article: "Economists polled by Reuters forecast Australia's ...

2020: Year of the fragile economy

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2020
... disrupt the already tepid global rally. That's according to the latest report from the World Bank on the global economic outlook for 2020, aptly named "Fragile, Handle with Care". Trade tensions, slowing growth in major economies, financial stress in ...

Chief economist update: Three cheers for Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2019
... it would not cut interest rates further - currently at 1.5%-1.75% -- because, according to chair Powell: "Our economic outlook remains a favourable one despite global developments and ongoing risks." Nor would the Fed raise the fed funds rate (at least ...

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

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2019
... October - that took the fed funds rate from 2.5% to 1.75%. Fed chair Jerome Powell was full of optimism. "Our economic outlook remains a favourable one despite global developments and ongoing risks. With our decisions through the course of the past year ...