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Chief economist update: Hoping for the best, preparing for the worst of Brexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2019
... bears this out for the simple reason that, and as explained by Markit: "Companies stepped up production to build-up inventories in advance of Brexit and also meet rising inflows of new work (mainly reflecting stockpiling at clients)" with "the rate of ...

Chief economist update: Cash rate should be 1%

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2019
... to fourth quarter GDP growth: government consumption (0.3 percentage points); household consumption (0.2 pps) and, inventories (0.2 pps). But government consumption could not continue to provide such strong contribution going forward without negatively ...

Chief economist update: US economic growth is slowing and accelerating

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2019
... from government spending and investment to fourth quarter GDP growth (0.07 pps from 0.44 pps in Q3) and in private inventories (0.13 pps a whopping 2.33 pps) - one, that's sure to rebound in the following quarter given the lingering strength in household ...

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 ...