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Chief economist update: Prudence, patience and persistence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
... manufacturing, services, in construction. Then we had declines in industrial production, in capital goods production. The PMI in exports orders also declined. Also we had declines in national business and confidence indicators. And these declines were ...

Chief economist update: View from the National Farmers' Federation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2018
... agribusiness supply chain - up to 1.6 million jobs in retail, logistics and food and fibre manufacturing. Secondly, the reason exports to the EU are so low is the highly restrictive tariffs and quotas we face - as a result of poor negotiations when the ...

Chief economist update: Malcolm puts agricuture in the middle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2018
... show agriculture accounts for only 2.2% of total employment. Agriculture accounts for around 12% of Australia's total exports which is nothing to sneeze at but its agricultural exports to the EU amounted to a mere A$3.8 billion as at FY2016/17 or just ...

Chief economist update: No target sign on India's back

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 APR 2018
... they'll be multiplying. US Census Bureau data show that except for Argentina and Brazil, America imports more than it exports to these "sons of Trump" countries. China's exclusion from exemption is understandable because as at the end of 2017, it sold ...

Chief economist update: Japan's other war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2018
... because Japan wants to keep "good relations with Trump" (keeping the enemy closer) and that it is confident that its steel exports can win tariff exemptions. About 80% of Japan's 38 million tonnes in steel exports "went to Asia, dwarfing the US market ...

Chief economist update: Synchronised global slowing?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2018
... 54.1 53.4 - Rising, slower rate Output 54.8 53.5 - Rising, slower rate New Orders 55.0 53.9 - Rising, slower rate New Exports 53.1 51.8 - Rising, slower rate Employment 53.1 52.3 - Rising, slower rate Input Prices 60.7 60.0 - Rising, slower rate Output ...

Chief economist update: The survey says...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2018
... retail sector is of particular concern, with domestic demand hardly looking robust enough to support growth if China's exports suffer from punitive US trade measures." With employment growth still "near a historic high", it's not difficult to speculate ...

Chief economist update: It's not just the trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2018
... 1930 which raised the tariffs on US imports from 25.9% to 50%. US imports dropped by 66% between 1929 and 1933 and its exports plunged by 61%. We all know what happened thereafter - the depression deepened. The US unemployment rate jumped from 7.8% in ...

Chief economist update: Dot tales

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2018
... tariffs on Chinese imports this week and that China is already considering slapping higher tariffs on US agricultural exports. Once again, ex-Fed chief Janet Yellen's caution come to mind: "As I have noted on previous occasions, participants' projections ...

Chief economist update: Australia cruising at low altitude

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2018
... explains, total economic output is derived from the sum of consumption (C), investment (I), government spending (G) and exports minus imports (X-Y). The details of the December quarter show positive contributions to growth from household consumption ...