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Westpac profits down 24%, dividend flat

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2019
... continue and a 1.5% discount will be applied to the market price, to add capital flexibility. The bank expects the GDP growth to hold at 2.2%, inflation to remain low, and employment growth to likely slow. "House prices are likely to remain soft and ...

Chief economist update: Not spring yet in the Eurozone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2019
... territory. IHS Markit provides a succinct narrative of the Eurozone outlook. "The surveys indicate that quarterly eurozone GDP growth has slowed to just under 0.2%." "The persistence of the business survey weakness raises questions over the economy's ...

Chief economist update: S&P raises Duterte ratings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2019
... accounts, low public indebtedness, and the economy's sound external settings." Love him or loathe him, Philippine GDP growth has remained buoyant despite the slowdown in the global economy and trade wars that continue to afflict his term. The Philippines ...

Chief economist update: Lock in two RBA rate cuts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2019
... given the relative deviations of inflation (1.4% average of trimmed mean and weighted median) from target (2.0%-3.0%), GDP growth (2.3% in Q4 2018) from potential (3.0%) and the neutral cash rate (1.5%), the nominal official cash rate should now be at ...

Chief economist update: China and the spring in its step

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2019
... Kaufman came to mind when I read about China's recent economic data dump in the first month of spring. China's GDP growth stabilised at 6.4% in the year to the March 2019 quarter - better than market expectations (extrapolations?) for a continued ...

Chief economist update: AUD misdirection

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2019
... the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) 'World Economic Outlook, April' report where it shaved its world GDP growth forecast to 3.3% this year - down from the 3.5% rate predicted in January 2019 and 3.7% forecast in October 2018. The IMF ...

Chief economist update: EUr next

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2019
... EU, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) released its "World Economic Outlook, April" report which shaved the global GDP growth outlook to 3.3% this year - down from 3.5% predicted only three months ago and 3.7% forecast in the October WEO report. The ...

Chief economist update: ECB digs deeper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2019
... conditions and the smooth transmission of monetary policy". This is in response to the ECB staff's downgrade of its GDP growth projections to 1.1% this year and 1.6% in 2020. This compares with the previous forecasts of 1.7% this year (lowered from ...

Chief economist update: Rosy assumptions a Budget surplus make

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2019
... year and a 4.2% deficit due to the GFC. The economic projections in the Budget Papers 2019-20 look rational enough - GDP growth of 2.25% this fiscal year and then 2.75% per annum over the next two years. This is in line with the RBA's forecasts and ...

Chief economist update: China stitches it in time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2019
... measures at the opening of the National People's Congress on March 5 simultaneous with his revelation of a lowered GDP growth target from 6.5% to 6.0%-6.5% this year. China's GDP growth slowed to 6.4% in the year to the December 2018 quarter ...