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Chief economist update: Unchanged RBNZ stance would force it to change stance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2019
... further moderate in 2019 and global commodity prices have already softened, reducing the tailwind that New Zealand economic activity has benefited from. The risk of a sharper downturn in trading-partner growth has also heightened over recent months." ...

Chief economist update: Policy normalisation interrupted

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2019
... January 2018: Brighter Prospects, Optimistic Markets, Challenges Ahead" January 11, 2018. It said then: "Global economic activity continues to strengthen. The pickup in growth has been broad based, with notable upside surprises in Europe and Asia. Global ...

Chief economist update: US consumer sentiment cops bullet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2019
... consistent with a slowdown in the pace of growth, it does not yet indicate the start of a sustained downturn in economic activity. It is the strength in personal finances that will continue to support consumption expenditures at favourable levels in ...

Chief economist update: The curse of Japan's consumption tax hike

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2019
... maintained current policy settings through to the end of 2018. Looking ahead, despite some signs of improvement in economic activity, inflation remains stubbornly stuck below the BOJ's target. Latest survey and eco stats suggest that Japan's ...

Fed steady with a slight chance of a rate cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
... powwow: While "...participants generally judged that the economy was evolving about as anticipated, with real economic activity rising at a strong rate, labor market conditions continuing to strengthen, and inflation near the Committee's objective". ...

Chief economist update: Another year over, a new one begins

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 JAN 2019
... Donald Trump's declaration of the 25/10 tariff on steel/aluminium on 1 March 2018 set the wheels of global economic activity and trade into reverse and with them, equity market fortunes. China, being Trump's central target, is worse hit as its ...

Chief economist update: Fed fail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 DEC 2018
... conclusion of its 18-19 December FOMC meeting. This is due to its optimism over the US labour market and overall economic activity. That's fine and dandy, for not delivering on market expectations for a rate rise this month would set off alarm bells ...

Chief economist update: Aussie property market drop becoming self-fulfilling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2018
... normalisation. Then "Tariff Trump" happened, China slowed, Japan lurched a quarter away from recession, Eurozone's economic activity lost momentum underscored by the contraction in German and Italian GDP in the third quarter - replaced by increased ...

Chief economist update: Wall Street in drunken sailor's shadow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2018
... developed and emerging equity markets alike, creating a wealth effect that was spurring spending and lifting economic activity. Now the Fed is taking away money, money, money from the system (and raising interest rates) and the ECB has already stated ...

Chief economist update: Slowing in sync

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... there's the tussle between Brussels and Italy and its proposed budget deficit and the general slowing in Eurozone economic activity, there's Brexit, and of course, there's Trump's trade war against China. A picture paints a thousand words ...