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Chief economist update: COVID-19 cycle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2020
... UK meanwhile added France and the Netherlands onto its 14-day arrival quarantine list. Belgium made masks mandatory and Greece also grappled with a fresh surge in cases." Hopefully, we won't see the sharp slump in economic activity that resulted ...

Chief economist update: The next generation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2020
... to agree. Recall the fiscal funding disputes between "austere" countries, led by Germany, and the PIGS (Portugal, Italy, Greece, Spain) during the European sovereign debt crisis seven years before....it's the emerging fiscal union of the European ...

Chief economist update: No escaping the inverted yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2020
... respective curves and are now gradually relaxing restrictions. Among them: Australia, New Zealand, India, Italy, Spain, Germany, Greece, Iran and Saudi Arabia. China, of course, ended its lockdown weeks earlier (7 April). While unlocking lockdowns prematurely ...

Link Group expands with Europe acquisition

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2020
... Ireland underpinned by longstanding customer relationships as well as a growing presence in the emerging markets of Spain, Greece and Cyprus." PES had total AUM of circa €40billion (AU$65 billion) and generated revenue of €92.9 million (AU$149.9 ...

John Key under fire

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2019
... capital requirements are extremely serious. "The capital requirements are designed so that we don't end up like, for example, Greece or Portugal where there are people lined up for kilometres down the street trying to get their money out because the ...

Chief economist update: La vita is no longer e bella

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2019
"When the moon hits your eye, like a big pizza pie, that's amore..." But Italians may not be in the mood for "amore", not when their economy - the third biggest in the Eurozone - is officially in a technical recession. La vita is no longer e bella! ...

Chief economist update: Cheaper oil greases wheels of growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2018
... on the 4 October. The slide came after Trump decided to be "magnanimous" in exempting eight countries -- China, India, Greece, Italy, Taiwan, Japan, Turkey and South Korea - from buying Iranian oil. OPEC and non-OPEC oil producers pumping oil plus Iranian ...

Chief economist update: Oil slick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2018
... contraction. Ergo, lesser demand for oil. As per supply, Trump's recent decision exempting eight countries - China, India, Greece, Italy, Taiwan, Japan, Turkey and South Korea - from buying Iranian oil means that Iran's oil production would continue ...

Chief economist update: Super Mario keeps his cool

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
... the experience of the Greek Crisis and Grexit talks makes it imperative. More so, because Italy is a bigger economy than Greece. Eurostat figures show that Greece accounts for only 1.2% of total EU GDP (as at 2016) while Italy - the fourth biggest economy ...

Chief economist update: Emerging markets feel the heat as Turkey burns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2018
... roasting and so do several European countries. The European Central Bank (ECB) can only count its blessings that Turkey is not Greece. It has applied, but Turkey is not (yet) a member of the single-currency area. Still, the ECB has every right to be ...