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No room for policy mistakes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2019
... institutions are looking in the same direction... downwards. The IMF's World Economic Outlook report for October forecast world GDP growth to slow from 3.6% in 2018 to 3.0% in 2019 before rebounding to 3.4% in 2020. While these represent a relatively ...

Chief economist update: Fed has Trump's trade war number

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2019
... States, its impact is around 1% to GDP... through early next year. With U.S. GDP estimated at about $20 trillion, and world GDP at about $85 trillion, a 1% impact would put the drag from trade uncertainty at about $200 billion to U.S. GDP, and $850 billion ...

Chief economist update: AUD misdirection

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2019
... boost by the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) 'World Economic Outlook, April' report where it shaved its world GDP growth forecast to 3.3% this year - down from the 3.5% rate predicted in January 2019 and 3.7% forecast in October 2018. ...

Putting a price tag on clean investing

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2018
... created by the development of cleantech patents ranges from US$10.16 to US$15.49 trillion dollars which is 13%-20% of the world GDP in 2017. Additionally, this will involve an extra investment stimulus to the economy from US$2.93 to US$3.71 trillion ...

Chief economist update: The risks just got real

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2018
... their projections just became real. The World Bank's "Global Economic Prospects" report (released in January) upgraded world GDP growth to 3% in 2018 (from its June forecast of 2.8%) and 2.9% in 2019 (from 2.8%). "A broad-based cyclical global recovery ...

Vanguard changes emerging markets ETF index

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2016
... substantial long-term benefits for investors; representing the world's second-largest GDP, China accounts for 16% of world GDP and has shown a 6.3% GDP growth rate.

Indian LIC launches IPO

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2016
... Australians to invest and I think the time is now ripe for the India Fund.'' Pereira said India now speaks for 7.1% of world GDP compared to Australia's 1%, meaning India can offer diversification for Australian investors. The IT sector in one example ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2016
China's GDP to grow 56% by 2021 Total world GDP is estimated to be A$99 trillion this year, according to the Statistics Times news service. The US as expected is ranked number one accounting for 25% of global economic output, followed by China on 15% ...

Comparative advantage

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2015
... economy. They better act soon for just as IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde told French journal 'Les Echos', "World GDP [growth] at 3.3% this year is not realistic anymore... A forecast of 3.8% for next year is not either. At issue is slowing growth ...

Stirred but not shaken

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015
... alternative will be too messy for the Eurozone to countenance. Just as it did with the member that was tinier (0.04% of world GDP) than tiny Greece (0.3%) back in March 2013. Morgan Stanley of Cyprus was quoted back then saying that "the market appears ...