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Chief economist update: Middle Kingdom on top

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2020
... to redirect its focus and resources on sustaining and strengthening the economic recovery. It's on its way. China's GDP expanded by 4.9% in the year to the September quarter, strengthening from the June quarter's growth of 3.2% which itself ...

Chief economist update: COVID-19 returns to Europe with a vengeance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2020
... have been hit by intensifying virus concerns". At its September meeting, the European Central Bank (ECB) forecast Eurozone GDP contracting by 8% in 2020 - better than the 8.7% slump predicted in June. Growth projections for the year 2021 and 2022 were ...

Chief economist update: Budget me this Batman

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2020
... precious few worrying about the implications of the Morrison government's historic fiscal expenditure - amounting to 11% of GDP this fiscal year -- on the nation's debt - that would reach more than a trillion A-dollars over the next three years ...

AAA rating holds on by a thread

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2020
... spending in response to the health and economic crisis will cause large fiscal deficits and a sharp increase in government debt/GDP." Despite the revised outlook, Australia will hold on to its AAA rating for the time being, Fitch said, because of the ...

Chief economist update: Splish splash, budget cash

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2020
... Treasury's cash splash. This is underscored by the Budget estimates. While the underlying cash deficit would erode from 4.3% of GDP in the 2019/20 fiscal year to 11.0% this year, the government's largesse would enable Australia's fiscal balances ...

Government declares record deficit, super reforms

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
... debt will increase to $703 billion, or 36% of gross domestic product, this year. This will peak at $966 billion or 44% of GDP in June 2024, he said. "This is a heavy burden, but a necessary one to responsibly deal with the greatest challenge of our time," ...

Chief economist update: Pandemic, what pandemic?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2020
... Outlook Interim Report puts it: "All G20 countries with the exception of China will have suffered recession in 2020." Chinese GDP grew by 3.2% in the year to the June quarter after contracting by 6.8% in the first. Recent stats indicate the economy continuing ...

Chief economist update: The W in the second wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020
... growth average of 4.8% (single-hit) or 2.2% (double-hit). The IMF's projections send the same message. It expects Eurozone GDP growth to bounce back by 6.0% in 2021, stronger than the 4.8% recovery in advanced economies. The sharp recovery in the ...

Need to recalibrate the fiscal strategy: Frydenberg

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2020
... of the pandemic than forecast in the 2019-20 MYEFO, both in real and nominal terms." Frydenberg said in the near-term, real GDP is forecast to grow strongly, but will come off a lower base. By the end of 2020-21, Frydenberg said Australia's real economy ...

Chief economist update: Yoshihide and the yen

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2020
... economy to slowly recover. Latest indicators show that Japan's past its worst - i.e. the worst economic slump on record with GDP collapsing at an annual rate of 28.1% in the June quarter. Worse than worst is this followed two quarters of negative ...