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Doubting the benefit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2017
... president Trump's reflationary policies (would they be passed in full, scaled down, or abandoned) are recent developments in China - the world's second biggest economy. While the world is giving Trump's pro-growth agenda - all still hanging up in the ...

Going good but there are risks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 MAR 2017
... Developments in global demand and prices for iron ore and coal will be critical, particularly demand for these commodities in China." But apart from wishing and hoping and praying that China's economy continues growing, this is beyond Australia's control. ...

What a drag

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAR 2017
... decline. The gathering synchronisation in global economic growth, along with strengthening manufacturing activity conditions in China - underscored by the higher than expected official and Caixin manufacturing PMI for February - suggest a recovery in ...

China price rises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2017
... Nonetheless, this indicates that Chinese producers are still unable to pass on price rises to the consumer. Producer prices in China rose by 6.9% in the year to January - the highest since August 2011 -- up from 5.5% in the previous month and representing ...

Dwindling reserves

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2017
China's foreign exchange reserves continued to decline, falling by US$12.3 billion in January to US$2.988 trillion - the first time since February 2011 that reserves had fallen below the important psychological threshold of US$3 trillion. Though this ...

Don't follow consensus: Baur

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2017
... implications and opportunities. Labeling the trends as 'four funerals and a wedding,' Baur highlighted how the investment boom in China alongside global debt financing demand, the belief that economic stagnation was permanent and wage and salary stagnation ...

Finding economic winners in an unpredictable world

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2017
... the beginning of the end of QE which was already on the way this time one year ago. And we didn't talk about the move in China from a production and export to a consumption and import economy," Tinker said. Turning to the question on everyone's mind ...

Last chance to attend Chief Economists Forum

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2017
... indicates US economic growth should accelerate further, but there is some chance growth could slow considerably in late 2018. In China, faster nominal growth, higher profits, an easy flow of credit, and further fiscal stimulus will support the economy ...

Tax breaks drive China car sales

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2017
... sales increased by 9.5% in the month of December and by 13.7% for the full-year 2016 - the fastest since 2013. Car sales in China have been rising since the introduction of the tax break in October 2015. But with the incentive removed on 31 December ...

The year that was and the year that will be

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 DEC 2016
... Chinese economy, a disorderly depreciation could spark a disorderly capital outflow - one that's now beginning to show in China's bond market. Chinese regulators stopped bond market trading last week as 10-year bond yields surged by 22 bps to 3.34% from ...