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Chief economist update: Not spring yet in the Eurozone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2019
... estimates show the single-currency region's GDP increased by 0.4% in the March 2019 quarter - better than market expectations for a 0.3% gain - from 0.2% in the December 2018 quarter and 0.1% in the three-months ended September 2018. This brought ...

Chief economist update: Policy of patience

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2019
... range of information, including measures of labor market conditions, indicators of inflation pressures and inflation expectations, and readings on financial and international developments". The "wide range of information" argues for a resumption of the ...

Chief economist update: A good problem to have?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2019
... higher interest rates; a cut in interest rates becomes imperative before low inflation turns into lower inflation expectations and morphs into deflation. Nice problem to have, hey? Sure is, if not for the rise and rise in the US equity market - the S&P ...

Chief economist update: Lock in two RBA rate cuts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2019
... inflation slowed to 1.3% in the year to the March quarter from 1.8% in the December 2018 quarter. This missed market expectations for an already sharp slowdown to 1.5%. A similar trend is evident in the core inflation measures. The trimmed mean inflation ...

Chief economist update: China is back on track

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2019
... latest statement no longer mentioned "stabilising employment, finance, trade, foreign investment, investment and expectations". Instead, central government is shifting its focus back to "reform and opening up" and "restructure" - of the economy - one ...

Chief economist update: Equity market rally has legs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2019
... that "the next-move-is-up scenarios were more likely than the next-move-is-down scenarios"... with financial market expectations for not only one, but two interest rate cuts gaining advocates as the year progresses. And then there's China, which ...

Chief economist update: AUD misdirection

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2019
... cash rate is 1.5% and the Fed funds rate at 2.25%-2.5%. The status quo is also preserved with regards to interest expectations. Despite policy guidance from the Fed that it will keep interest rates on ice for the remainder of 2019 and the RBA is presently ...

Chief economist update: China stitches it in time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2019
... from 49.9 in February - this is the first reading indicating expansion since November 2018, better than consensus expectations for a 50.1 outcome and is the highest reading since July last year. Not only this, forward indicators have also improved. As ...

Chief economist update: RBA repeats history

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2019
... sentiment dropped to 98.8 in March from 103.8 in February. But for our purposes, the survey's Unemployment Expectations Index rose to a reading of 130.6, up 8.9% from the previous month and 7.2% higher from a year earlier - meaning that respondents ...

Chief economist update: Breaking up is hard to do

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2019
... discussions and arguments would remain the same. Going beyond the politics of Brexit, Brexiteers can argue that despite expectations of the UK's divorce from the European Union, Britain's economy continues to do A-OK. Sure, UK GDP growth has ...

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