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Special Report: Hitting new ETF goals

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... market to conserve capital, shed assets and subsequently meet more stringent regulatory requirements. Consequently, inventories of cash bonds reduced and investors searched for alternatives. That's when ETFs opened an avenue to the fixed income market ...

Chief economist update: Shopaholics drive US growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
... continued strength coming from the US consumer in the coming months. This indication is supported by big contribution from inventories in the third quarter - 2.07 percentage points - as US businesses rebuild their stocks in anticipation of increased ...

Chief economist update: Confidence down, conditions up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2018
... around 23,000 per month. This is consistent with a declining unemployment rate over the latter part of 2018." Stocks (inventories) increased four points to a reading of +6 and the jumped in forward orders from +2 in July to +5 indicates that this inventory ...

Chief economist update: Japan's sun shines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2018
... consumption added 0.4 pps and capital expenditure 0.5 pps. Public demand rose 0.2% over the second quarter but similar to inventories, provided to contribution to GDP growth in the June quarter. Net exports subtracted one percentage point from overall ...

Chief economist update: Blame the US economy for the widening trade gap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2018
... America's external account is being offset by growth in domestic demand. This is evidenced by the increase in inventories by both wholesale and retail businesses. Advance estimates show that wholesale inventories grew by 0.7% in the month of July ...

Chief economist update: Boom in the USA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2018
... second quarter (from 3.6% in the first) while growth in imports slowed to 0.5% from 3.0% in the March quarter. However, inventories subtracted a sharp one percentage point to GDP. But this is actually good news for the coming quarter. The drawdown in ...

Chief economist update: When good oil goes bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2018
... by Saudi Arabia - still in place and the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) recently reporting that crude inventories by a greater than expected 2.2 million barrels in the latest week, the upward momentum in crude oil prices remains. Recent reports ...

Chief economist update: Not as good as it gets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
... jump in private investment in the March quarter that followed a 4.7% increase in the previous three-month period and inventories which added to 0.43 percentage points in the first quarter, partially reversing the 0.53 pps subtraction in the December ...

Chief economist update: The angel in the details

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2018
... exploring new investment in factories and equipment". What caused the US economy to slow in the last quarter of 2017 were inventories that subtracted 0.67 pps (compared with a 0.79 in the previous period) and net exports (-1.13 pps from +0.36). The drop ...

Japan on reverse cycle?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 NOV 2017
... components all provided or no contributions to third quarter GDP growth. While net exports (0.5 percentage points) and inventories (0.2 pps) provided positive contributions to growth, they too offer not so good tidings. This is because the build-up in ...