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Chief economist update: One hike this year, one hike next year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2018
... businesses and asset prices to them - remain the most significant influence on, and source of uncertainty about, the economic outlook". Ben Ong is the Director of Economics and Investments at Rainmaker Group. He previously worked as a fund manager, economist ...

Powell power

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 NOV 2017
... Yellen's testimony before the Joint Economic Committee of the US Congress overnight where she discussed 'The Current Economic Outlook and Monetary Policy'. Growth is gaining momentum, inflation remains low and the Fed is carefully monitoring it to determine ...

What price Brexit certainty?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2017
... negotiations create. As per the BOE, "The decision to leave the European Union is having a noticeable impact on the economic outlook... Uncertainties associated with Brexit are weighing on domestic activity, which has slowed even as global growth has ...

BOE does what it said it would do

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2017
... there's still Brexit uncertainty. "The decision to leave the European Union is having a noticeable impact on the economic outlook... Uncertainties associated with Brexit are weighing on domestic activity, which has slowed even as global growth has risen ...

Fed does the expected, will do as expected

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2017
... expected to prevail in the longer run. However, the actual path of the federal funds rate will depend on the economic outlook as informed by incoming data." While the Fed made no reference to a December rate hike in its October Statement, this is as ...

Enter the dragon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2017
... International Monetary Fund (IMF) which lifted China's 2017 GDP growth projection to 6.8% in its October World Economic Outlook report - up from 6.6% it forecast in April this year - before easing to 6.5% next year. The roadmap provided in the 19th National ...

Japanese sun rises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2017
... help underpin Japanese exports. The improved outlook on the Japanese economy and company earnings. In its World Economic Outlook report for October, the IMF upgraded its GDP growth forecasts to 1.5% in 2017 and 0.7% in 2018, up by 0.3 percentage points ...

Inflated attention on September US CPI inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 OCT 2017
... that ever perennial phrase in the FOMC Statements, "the actual path of the federal funds rate will depend on the economic outlook as informed by incoming data."

ECB exit: 2018 or 2021?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2017
... of 87.5 it reached back in October 2008. This comes as no surprise given the single currency area's improving economic outlook. One, that has been highlighted by the continued advances in the region's already strong PMI readings - composite (56.7 in ...

On the road to normal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2017
... Jones Industrials; Nasdaq composite; Russell 2000 - at or near record highs, indicating confidence in the US economic outlook. This provides a sort of self-feeding mechanism for the Fed, which apart from monitoring conditions relative to its objective ...