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Chief economist update: The cure for Italy's tourism problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2020
... getting everything that it wished for courtesy of one microscopic organism. Long before the COVID-19 epidemic spread, the Italian government implemented new rules and regulations in an attempt to reduce over tourism including; prohibiting sitting on ...

Global stocks plunge as COVID-19 fear accelerates, oil crashes

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
... fell 11.17%. It comes as Britain announced its fourth death from the coronavirus, with 319 confirmed cases. While the Italian government has placed the entire country on lockdown as its confirmed coronavirus deaths rose to 463, with more than 9172 confirmed ...

Chief economist update: Coronaphobia sickens Japan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2020
... these two words - irrational and fear - would be, in a manner of speaking, the death of us all. This fear has prompted the Italian government to lock down the entire Lombardy region, along with at least 15 neighbouring provinces, including Milan. This ...

Bonds raise alarm at fund manager

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2019
... bonds issued by companies related to billionaire Lars Windhorst through his holding company Tennor Holding, including Italian lingerie maker La Perla, oil field operator Trent Petroleum Finance and French film distribution company. These bonds were highly ...

Chief economist update: La vita is no longer e bella

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2019
... their economy - the third biggest in the Eurozone - is officially in a technical recession. La vita is no longer e bella! Italian GDP contracted by 0.2% in the December 2018 after shrinking by 0.1% in the previous three-month period. To be sure, economists ...

Chief economist update: Fed fail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 DEC 2018
... "International developments." China and the Eurozone are slowing, Japan and Germany are a quarter away from a technical recession, Italian budget deficit concerns, Brexit concerns, and the shrinking of global trade (because of tariff Trump), among others. ...

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

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2018
... 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 activity with regards to Italy's budget and the riots in France (that ...

Chief economist update: Thanks for nothing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2018
... column alongside its brothers, in time for Thanksgiving. This is because it's raining... problems - trade war, Brexit, Italian budget, de-synchronised global growth, geo-political concerns, free-falling emerging markets, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. ...

Chief economist update: Buy the dip or sell the rallies?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2018
... looming shift from QE to QT. Worries about a hard Brexit have flared back up again. Rome and Brussels still at odds over Italian budget. China policy fine-tuning measures still seen as insufficient. Political atmosphere post US midterm elections remains ...

Chief economist update: Super Mario keeps his cool

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
... agreement will be found." But it should be given the threat of contagion to other countries in the single-currency region. Italian bond yields have soared to a four-year high of 3.62% from just 1.98% at the beginning of the year, after Brussels rejected ...