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Chief economist update: Chinese green shoots?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2019
... in October from 5.8% in the previous month and slower than market expectations for a 5.4% gain. Worse, fixed asset investment growth slowed to 5.2% -- its weakest reading on record -- in the January to October period to CNY51.1 trillion from 5.4% in ...

Chief economist update: The PBOC stimulates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2019
... in October from 5.8% in the previous month and slower than market expectations for a 5.4% gain. Worse, fixed asset investment growth slowed to 5.2% - its weakest reading on record - in the January to October period to CNY51.1 trillion from 5.4% in the ...

Chief economist update: China's great leap forward 70 years in the making

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019
... The continued deterioration in Chinese economic stats gives credence to the OECD's outlook. Growth in fixed asset investment has decelerated from a high of 6.3% this year to 5.5% in the year to August; so has industrial production (5.5% in August ...

Chief economist update: Tweeting Trump versus totalitarian Xi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 AUG 2019
... data showing indications of further slowing in the Chinese economy - retail sales, industrial production, fixed asset investment, total social financing, among others - have prompted the government unveil counter-cyclical measures. In addition to lowering ...

Chief economist update: Will Australia avoid another global recession?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2019
... year to July from 6.3% in June; retail sales growth eased to 7.6% from 9.8%; and, year-on-year growth in fixed asset investment decelerated to 5.7% from 5.8%. The 64 million dollar question is, would Australia's luck hold out or would it luck out? ...

Chief economist update: The (trade) war is back on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2019
... the biggest increase since July 2014 - versus 5.3% in February, beating expectations for a 5.9% increase. Fixed asset investment growth quickened to 6.3% in the year to March from 6.1% in the previous month - a sharp improvement from the record low (based ...

Chief economist update: China and the spring in its step

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2019
... the March 2019 quarter - better than market expectations (extrapolations?) for a continued slide to 6.3%. Fixed asset investment lifted by 6.3% in the January to March 2019 period (from a year earlier), up from 6.1% in the first two months of the year. ...

Chief economist update: Time to pig out on China shares?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2019
... UN) this year. Latest activity data supports these predictions, underscored by the continued downtrend in fixed asset investment, industrial production and retail sales. Not to mention the lead from the Caixin China composite PMI which has declined to ...

Chief economist update: Chinese dragon now a bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2018
... three-year low of CNY0.76 trillion in May from CNY1.58 trillion in the previous month. There's more. Fixed asset investment growth slowed to 6.1% in the year to May from 7% in April; The year-on-year growth in industrial production eased to 6.8% ...

Enter the dragon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2017
... in industrial production advanced by 6.6% in September - the fastest since June - from 6% in August but fixed asset investment slowed to 7.5% from 7.8% over the same period. These are captured by China's national accounts which showed that GDP growth ...