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Chief economist update: European Central Bank policy U-turn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019
... dark room you move with tiny steps. You don't run, but you do move, said European Central Bank (ECB) president Mario Draghi. About two months after the ECB ended QE - its â,¬2.6 trillion asset purchase programme on 31 December 2018 - it's launched ...

Chief economist update: Eurozone growth slowing fast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2018
... for a 0.4% expansion and the weakest quarterly growth rate since the June 2014 quarter. To be sure, ECB president Mario Draghi acknowledged at the July ECB meeting that the growth moderation in the first and second quarters of this year was due to the ...

Chief economist update: Super Mario keeps his cool

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
... current heightened volatility on Wall Street that's adding to investor anxiety around the world, ECB President Mario Draghi remains unfazed. "Incoming information, while somewhat weaker than expected, remains overall consistent with an ongoing broad-based ...

Chief economist update: Steady as she goes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2018
... Eurozone's economic growth has slowed to 2.1% in the June quarter from 2.4% in the March quarter." However, ECB President Mario Draghi has already pencilled this in. In his July Q&A, Draghi admitted that growth has moderated in the first quarter ...

Chief economist update: ECB on track for exit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2018
... convergence of inflation to levels that are below, but close to, 2% over the medium term." In his Q&A, ECB President Mario Draghi explained that the no change in policy direction is that the "the Governing Council took note that there hasn't been ...

Chief economist update: Lessons from the last world trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2018
... we are hearing about decision to postpone investment, postpone hiring, postpone making decisions." ECB President Mario Draghi: "It's not easy and it's not yet time to see what the consequences on monetary policy of all this can be but there's ...

Chief economist update: ECB cannot be any clearer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2018
... likely fiscal expansions, but this is more medium term, in the eurozone, in several countries in the eurozone." (Mario Draghi) Ben Ong is the Director of Economics and Investments at Rainmaker Group. He previously worked as a fund manager, economist ...

Chief economist update: "Quitaly"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2018
... financial market fears over Italy is best captured in the following two charts: European Central Bank (ECB) president Mario Draghi succeeded in calming nerves over Grexit with his "whatever it takes" policy. Draghi might have to throw in more than the ...

Chief economist update: Prudence, patience and persistence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
... recent data indicate that the single currency area's growth momentum is slowing down. This isn't lost on ECB President Mario Draghi. While Draghi offered a sober assessment in his monetary policy statement, "incoming information since our meeting in ...

Chief economist update: The euro's doing Trump's work in the Eurozone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2018
... temporary exemption to EU, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico and South Korea until May 1 - ECB President Mario Draghi said that while the central bank remains confident that inflation would eventually rise to the ECB's target of "below but ...