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Chief economist update: Time for a Keynes comeback

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2019
"Help, I need somebody... Help me if you can, I'm feeling down... Help me get my feet back on the ground Won't you please, please help me." -- The Beatles Most major world central banks have already cut interest rates (more than once) and/or ...

Chief economist update: Super Mario's last hurrah

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2019
... Eurozone manufacturing PMI survey gave credence to Draghi's statement at the July press conference that the economic outlook "is getting worse and worse and it is getting worse and worse in manufacturing". While the final manufacturing PMI reading ...

Advisers band together: AFA Conference 2019 kicks off

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2019
... of panel discussions on topics such as the future of the life insurance industry, the future of advice and an economic outlook. "We wanted to make the conference experience feel different from the time we launched it and we want to continue that feeling ...

Chief economist update: Fed cut and Trump's war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2019
... statements allude to the ongoing Sino-US trade skirmish as one of the major risks to their respective domestic economic outlook. The longer this goes on, the greater the uncertainty that is now hindering business investment - both in the US and its trading ...

Chief economist update: A case for optimism

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2019
... next 12mths" sub-index sank by 12.3% to 87.1 in July (below the long-run average of 107.7). Pessimism over the economic outlook persists over the longer-term with the "Economic conditions next 5yrs" sub-index falling by 6.7% to 91.6 (although a tad higher ...

Chief economist update: BOE flips tightening bias to easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2019
... information on economic activity, on balance, has become somewhat more downbeat, and uncertainties about the economic outlook have increased." These are, more or less, the same conditions that appear to have changed the Bank of England's (BOE) tightening ...

Chief economist update: Expect an RBNZ rate cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2019
... May board meeting could be counter-productive, indicating a sense of urgency (if not, panic) on the domestic economic outlook. Then again, the RBNZ board thinks: "Given the weaker global economic outlook and the risk of ongoing subdued domestic growth ...

Chief economist update: RBA to take rates to fresh record low

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2019
... cut interest rates, potentially at its June 4 meeting. The transcript of Lowe's speech - titled 'The Economic Outlook and Monetary Policy' - delivered to the Economic Society of Australia on May 21 concluded with a reference to the May board ...

Big banks forced to cut costs: Perennial Value

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2019
... economy as a whole and view the banks troubles through these lenses. "So if you adopt a more positive view on the economic outlook.... Where we don't believe a recession is coming, we see more ongoing growth and a muddle through scenario," he expanded. ...

Chief economist update: The Fed pause that refreshes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2019
... outlook for monetary policy beyond this meeting, a majority of participants expected that the evolution of the economic outlook and risks to the outlook would likely warrant leaving the target range unchanged for the remainder of the year," the Fed said. ...