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Chief economist update: The A$ will answer the question of how much more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 NOV 2019
... general economy...... and explains that: "A sustained 5% appreciation of the exchange rate would be expected to lower GDP growth by 1/2 percentage point on average relative to the central forecasts, keep the unemployment rate at around 51/4 per cent ...

Chief economist update: Brexit la la la

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2019
... agreements are expected to remove some of the uncertainty facing businesses and households, and the MPC projects that UK GDP growth will pick up during 2020," BOE said. Then again, the BOE's is prepared for the worst and is ready to act if necessary ...

Chief economist update: Arrivederci Signor Draghi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2019
... ECB's quantitative easing launched in March 2015. Looking back, these allowed the Eurozone economy to stabilise - GDP growth reached a high of 2.8% in the third quarter of 2017 and HICP inflation accelerated to as fast as 2.3% by October 2018. The ...

Chief economist update: Is the A$ becoming a safe-haven currency?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2019
... otherwise? Latest business and consumer sentiment surveys are down and the IMF has recently slashed Australia's GDP growth forecasts by 0.5 percentage points to 1.7% this year and by 0.4 pps to 2.3% in 2020. That's way more than the 0.2 and 0.1 ...

No room for policy mistakes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2019
... the WTO projects world merchandise trade to slow from 3.0% in 2018 to 1.2% this year, resulting in a deceleration in GDP growth (at market exchange rates) to 2.3% from 2.8% last year. But this isn't a game of who gets to spook the markets first rather ...

Leaving a legacy

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2019
... recent years, we have narrowed the focus down even further. We have a view that Australia's 20-odd years of unbroken GDP growth has twinned with migrant growth and the skills they brought. We continue to underline education in the Indigenous community ...

Chief economist update: Brexit uncertainty is not all that bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2019
... that the UK economy will slip into a recession in the third quarter have been eased by stronger-than-expected monthly GDP growth figures. The report shows that after contracting by 0.2% in the June quarter, GDP grew by 0.4% in the month of July and 0.1% ...

Chief economist update: Synchronised forecasts for a synchronised slowdown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2019
... the WTO projects world merchandise trade to slow from 3.0% in 2018 to 1.2% this year, resulting in a deceleration in GDP growth (at market exchange rates) to 2.3% from 2.8% last year. Surprise, surprise but all four international institutions recommend ...

Chief economist update: China's great leap forward 70 years in the making

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019
... raining on the Politburo's parade - both threatening to further weaken China's already slowing growth. Chinese GDP growth slowed to 6.2% in the year to second quarter from 6.4% in the first. This is still within the government's 2019 growth ...

Chief economist update: Future path of fed funds rate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2019
... assessments of appropriate monetary policy comes amid very little change in the Fed's economic projections. While 2019 GDP growth was revised a tad higher to 2.2% (from 2.1% in the June projections), the Fed still sees the economy growing at 2.0% ...