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Chief economist update: Inflation lifted by smokers with young children and homebuilders

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2021
Australia's consumer prices continue to recover from the 1.9% drop in the June 2020 quarter - the largest quarterly fall in the 72 year history of the CPI. However, the Australian Bureau of Statistics reported that the country's headline inflation ...

Chief economist update: Prepare for lift off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2021
In its latest World Economic Outlook (WEO), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has predicted a shallower contraction in world output for the year ended 2020 - minus 3.5%, down from the October forecast of a 4.4% contraction and the 4.9% decline it ...

Chief economist update: Virus now, inflation later

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2021
The inauguration of Joe Biden as the US's 46th president and his almost immediate buckling down to work garnered much of the media's attention last week. Hours after he was sworn in, Biden signed 17 executive orders, memorandums and proclamations ...

Chief economist update: Jobs, jobs, jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2021
Australians all let us rejoice! Less than a week before the country celebrates its day, the National Statistician released its latest survey of the domestic labour market... and it was good. "In joyful strains then let us sing, Advance Australia Fair." ...

Chief economist update: USA Inc is under new management

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2021
Joggin' Joe hits the ground running. Not soon after he was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States of America, Joe Biden rolled up his sleeves and went to work. Hours after his inauguration, Biden signed 17 executive orders, memorandums ...

Chief economist update: Iron ore is hot

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2021
The price of iron ore continues to rise and rise. It's up by another 9.1% in the first half of the first month of 2021 to US$169.97/metric tonne after soaring by 70.3% last year, sending it closer to the record high of US$191.70/metric tonne it ...

Chief economist update: Japan's second state of emergency

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2021
Japan may need to spend more to mitigate the expected slowing in consumption and business activity following the declaration of the second state of emergency. The worst of the pandemic appeared to have passed when Yoshihide Suga took over from Shinzo ...

Chief economist update: Eurozone at risk of double-dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021
The longer the Eurozone takes to get on top of the resurgence, the longer the lockdowns, the greater the risk of a double-dip recession. COVID-19 infections in Europe started re-appearing and multiplying sometime around October last year. The growth ...

Chief economist update: Yuan the victim of China's success

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2021
The Chinese yuan has seen a sharp appreciation, leading major Chinese news outlets to report that the government would be relaxing rules to make it simpler to settle the currency internationally. 'Twas less than one and a half years ago that the ...

Chief economist update: China on my mind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2021
The All Ordinaries index finished 2020 with a gain of 0.7%. Nothing to write home to mother about, especially compared with the 16.3% and 16.0% surge in the S&P 500 and the Nikkei-225, respectively, over the same period. However, the local bourse's ...