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Chief economist update: Good as gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2020
... prices dropped by 17.4% from a high of US$94.83/tonne in January to US$78.33/tonne in February soon after China locked down Wuhan and other cities in Hubei, before rebounding strongly following central government's decision to lift the lockdown on ...

EM winners, losers emerge in COVID-19 struggle

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020
... as a key area of concern. "President Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo talked about the virus's origination in Wuhan and whether China covered it up," Cirami said. "A geopolitical fissure began to emerge in reaction to China's new law that ...

Chief economist update: COVID-19 takes second crack at China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2020
... roadmap other nations on the planet followed. China quarantined and locked down activity of about 60 million inhabitants of Wuhan in Hubei province in early February. This is at the same time that the Chinese government and the People's Bank of China ...

Investors pile into companies on life support

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
... buying into heavily sold-off sectors. Today, markets have dropped on fears of a second wave, with news of fresh cases in Wuhan, Germany and South Korea erasing yesterday's gains. Stocks that led the charge on Monday are now bleeding red. So were ...

Chief economist update: Easing does it (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
... Murphy, anything that could go wrong went wrong. Here are the headlines: Northeast China hit by coronavirus infections, Wuhan reports new case (Reuters) "BEIJING (Reuters) -- Chinese authorities reported on Sunday what could be the beginning of a new ...

Chief economist update: No escaping the inverted yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2020
... ensured a deep recession but I wonder if a recession would have been forestalled had the virus not - escaped from a lab in Wuhan or jumped from a bat or pangolin into humans (take your pick). That other curve -- the yield curve (which presages a US recession) ...

Chief economist update: How deep the global recession?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2020
... bothered to look outside the square. Blame China for it seems that the coronavirus had already been doing the rounds in Wuhan before the ink on the IMF's January 2020 report dried... or the enter key hit on the IMF's keyboard. Then again, my ...

Wall Street surges as Sanders drops out, Wuhan reopens

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
News that Wuhan, the epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic, has now opened for business saw Wall Street surge overnight, with the S&P 500 once again entering bull market territory. From its March 23 lows, the S&P 500 has surged 23%, signifying the end ...

Chief economist update: Lock us down Scotty!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2020
... far not so good. To repeat, government and central banks cannot bribe the virus to go away. China's total lockdown of Wuhan is a positive test case. Italy's one presents a truism for Murphy's Law that all other nations can learn from. The ...

Chief economist update: What happens in China...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2020
... actions provide a guide on what happens next. China quarantined and locked down activity of about 60 million inhabitants of Wuhan in Hubei province - what other countries are now progressively moving towards - if memory serves me right, in early February. ...