Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 11 - 20 of 96 results for "Hard landing"

Will 2017 be a mirror image of 2016?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 JAN 2017
... about the Fed's expected four interest rate hikes that was coming over the course of 2016, think also about China's hard landing. Not surprisingly, gloom and doom was the catchphrase in the early days of last year. Just in case you've forgotten Virginia ...

The year that was and the year that will be

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 DEC 2016
... scared you, I and Irene at the open. The Fed was going to raise interest rates and China's economy was heading for hard landing. These two factors alone (never mind what's happening in Europe and Japan) sent financial markets - equity, bond, commodity ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2016
... flat at -4. China economic activity The latest updates on China's major economic indicators show that fears of a hard landing in the Chinese economy that greeted 2016 are just that. Retail sales advanced by 10.8% in the year to November - accelerating ...

Alternatives delivering for infra and PE

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2016
... specialists Alvin Tan and Anthony Michael said there were four key questions being asked by investors: the chance of a hard landing in China; whether emerging markets or developed markets will outperform; the impact of secular stagnation over the next ...

Fixed income China's sweet spot

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 26 APR 2016
... China's headline GDP growth will decelerate to 5-6% over the next few years, but emphasises the probability of a hard landing as low. "While China's slowdown will negatively impact certain countries/ industries it will benefit others. With the rise of ...

No more tears?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2016
... basis point cut in the fed funds rate this year and the next became music to financial market ears. The fear of a hard landing in China's economy also now appears to be only that... fear. Chinese GDP expanded by 6.7% in the year to the March quarter ...

Risks are overstated: AUI

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2016
... some kind we could expect a response from the US Federal Reserve where they delay tightening," Bovingdon said. "A hard landing in China would cause the Fed to pause. Otherwise the Fed has set its course and we think the global economy will handle them ...

Fed's plan slips on oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2016
... increased sending equity markets in bear territory on the back of concerns over slowing global growth in general and a hard landing in China in particular and the continued slide in oil prices. As at last night, WTI oil's down 28% to US$26.55 a barrel ...

Time running out to book places for Chief Economists Forum

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2016
... economist Julia Toth and RBC Capital Markets head of economics and fixed income strategy Su Lin Ong. "Whether China has a hard landing and whether it can manage to keep its currency stable is likely to be a talking point as well as how much the Fed will ...

Nikko downgrades equities stance

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2015
... should continue to do so in our view." The global investment committee said China does not appear to be in an overall hard landing despite struggling to transition to a more balanced economy. "Certainly, the recent volatility in its equity market and ...