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Chief economist update: Get shorty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020
... the Shanghai Composite index up by 10.1% this year to date - outperforming the S&P 500 (9.4%); the Nikkei-225 (-0.4%); the Stoxx-50 (-11.9%); the FTSE-100 (-20.4%); and the All ordinaries index (6.8%). China's debt market also offers better returns. ...

Chief economist update: The W in the second wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020
... you left too..." -Leif Garrett, When I Think of You' Right in the middle of the Northern Hemisphere summer, the Euro Stoxx-50 index surged by 42.7% from the eight-year low it plumbed in the middle of March this year The gradual easing of restrictions ...

Chief economist update: The next generation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2020
... that end in somewhat complex but workable compromises are part of the game." The financial markets think so too. The Euro Stoxx-50 index rose by 0.5% on the day, the broader Stoxx 600 rallied by as much as 1.3% and closed at its highest level since early ...

Chief economist update: This rebound is brought to you by the letter V

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2020
... 2020 to a record low 13.6 two months later. The harder they fall, the stronger they bounce back. So much so, that the Euro Stoxx-50 index has rebounded by a whopping 34.3% from the eight-year low it plumbed in the middle of March this year. Latest forecasts ...

Chief economist update: Easing does it (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
... sentiment... a lot. How much a lot? Compared with their mid-March 2020 lows: the S&P 500 index has rallied by 33.7%; the Euro Stoxx-50 index by 25.2%; the FTSE-100 by 21.2%; the Nikkei-225 by 24.7%; and, the All Ordinaries by 25.5% They all now fit the ...

Chief economist update: Eurozone good news to get worse before it gets better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2020
... economies - Germany, France, Italy and Spain. This relative optimism is reflected in the sharp drop in the VStoxx (Euro Stoxx 50 Volatility Index) - the eurozone's version of the fear gauge - from a near-GFC high reading of 85.62 points on the 16th ...

Chief economist update: Different contagion, same fiscal policy divide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2020
... PMI to 44.5 (from 49.2), which had been in contraction territory for the 14th straight month. This year to date, the Euro Stoxx-50 has dropped by 28.9%, giving up all its 2019 gains (24.8%), and then some. While the European Central Bank (ECB) has kept ...

Chief economist update: Oil gush

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020
... the year but it was on this day that markets had their first big fall - the S&P 500 index dropped by 7.6% on that day; the Stoxx 600 index plunged by 7.1%; the Nikkei-225 index went down by 5.1% and the Shanghai composite index by 3.0%; and, the S&P/ASX ...

Chief economist update: China leads the way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2020
... Beijing's benchmark index remains 8.6% down this year to date but it's outperformed the S&P 500 (-26.1%), the Euro Stoxx-50 (-31.0%), the FTSE-100 (-31.7%), the Nikkei-225 (-28.1%), the All Ords (-25.6%).

Chief economist update: Who's afraid of COVID-19?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2020
... sending equity markets from London to Rio and ol' London town dropping: The S&P/ASX 200 index dropped by 2.3%; the Euro Stoxx-50 index lost 4%; the FTSE-100 index went down by 3.3%; and the S&P 500 index lost 3.4%. Yes Virginia, you'll fear for ...