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Only way is up for global economy: Baur

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 9 JAN 2018
Giving his 2018 Financial Standard Chief Economists Forum preview, Principal Global Investors chief global economist Bob Baur says it's hard to find any near-term threats to the global economy. Speaking to Financial Standard, Baur said the world economy ...

FS has you covered in 2017

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017
Financial Standard attended all the major industry conferences this year to keep you informed. Chief Economists Forum It may well be Rainmaker's 25th anniversary in 2017, but this year also marked the anniversary of several historic and global economic ...

Beige Book report delivers known knowns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2017
... conditions in its district through reports from bank and branch directors and interviews with key business contacts, economists, market experts, and other sources. The Beige Book summarises this information by district and sector. An overall summary ...

Trump-flation returns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2017
... as to Congress' approval given its expected negative impact on the budget deficit. Bloomberg reports that: "21 of 26 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News after Trump and Republican congressional leaders rolled out their tax plan this week predicted ...

China slows to target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 SEP 2017
... 2017 growth target is 6.5% suggesting that it has scope to tolerate some more slowing. In fact, Reuters reports that, "economists at Nomura maintained their view that the economy would expand 6.8% in the third quarter from a year earlier." Not only that ...

JPMAM wins global equities mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 AUG 2017
... we are known for. We are pleased to have J.P. Morgan Asset Management on board to help us deliver that." Founded by economists Gareth Morgan and Andrew Gawith in 2000, GMI operates a superannuation scheme, private portfolio services and KiwiSaver retirement ...

Economics 101 is dead

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 JUL 2017
... determined by the interaction between demand and supply. High demand and low supply causes prices to rise - and vice-versa. Economists have already coined the term "stagflation" - an economic state of no growth (stagnation) and elevated inflation - but ...

Treasurer opens the way for increased infrastructure spending

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2017
... changes to the way government debt is reported. In his final pre-budget speech, delivered to the Australian Business Economists in Sydney on Thursday, Morrison flagged the government's desire to prioritise a different measure of the budget known as "net ...

Negative gearing exposing Australia's poor: KPMG

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2017
... have progressively increased debt levels at rates faster than their disposable incomes have grown. Most notably, KPMG economists highlight some of Australia's poorest citizens are taking on negatively geared property investments when there's a clear ...

Doubting the benefit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2017
... time last year, to 6.5%-7% from 7.0% in 2015, 'The Economist' magazine called it a "lofty target", stating that "many economists had reckoned that Chinese growth would be less than 6.5% this year; the IMF had forecast an expansion of 6.3%". The numbers ...