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Data doesn't justify "recession" headlines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2015
... reasons cited by respondents to the Australian PMI for improving conditions in September were stronger local orders and exports, due to the lower Australian dollar." (AiG) To make it three for three, Australian job vacancies jumped by 10.2% to 160,900 ...

Fed will lift later this year if...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015
... certain about the pace at which the headwinds still restraining the domestic economy will continue to fade. Moreover, net exports have served as a significant drag on growth over the past year and recent global economic and financial developments highlight ...

Government debt is not bad: Sicilia

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2015
... commodity dependent countries like Australia will suffer enormously. He said China is trying to shift away from cheap exports to a more domestically focused consumption and services economy but that transition is going to take time. "It's going to take ...

So bad it could only be good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
... reports, the latest trade data revealed that, "Imports into China slumped by 13.8% (in dollar terms) year-on-year, while exports were 5.5% lower." These suggest that both China's internal and external dynamics are shot. The sharp drop in imports validates ...

Lead us not into a recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... the end of June. Blame Beijing and the rest of 'em slow poke economies - they're not buying enough "Made in Australia". Exports subtracted the most - 0.7 percentage points - from GDP growth in second quarter. And while we're at it, we might as well blame ...

The horse still refuses to drink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015
... re-calibration revealing that the US economy grew not 2.3% but a solid 3.7% in the second quarter - backed up by "an upturn in exports, an acceleration in PCE, a deceleration in imports, an upturn in state and local government spending, and an acceleration ...

Gloom and doom news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... havoc in emerging markets. China is one of their biggest export markets and a slowdown there means less demand for their exports. Not only this, the yuan's devaluation also erodes their export competitiveness relative to Beijing. Speculation of a Fed ...

Should the Fed re-launch QE?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015
... lead to further appreciation of the dollar, extending the downward pressure on commodity prices and the weakness in net exports." While many point the finger on China - its slowing growth, its manipulation of the stock market, its currency devaluation ...

PBOC does an SNB

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
... to the US$ meant that as the US dollar goes up, so does the yuan vis-A -vis other currencies - the 8.3% drop in Chinese exports reported earlier this week bears witness to the erosion in export competitiveness wrought by the yuan's strength; the yuan's ...

Five minutes of commodity sunshine?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
... policies. Take the case of China - which by the by started the equity shopping spree overnight. Beijing reported tumbling exports - down 8.3% in the year to July - indicating weak global demand and diving imports - down 8.1% over the same period - suggesting ...