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Three for three

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015
... and 1.1% Thursday. If financial markets panicked on the first surprise devaluation announcement - because of "China hard landing"; "currency war"; "deflation pressure"; "commodity price plunges; "Asian financial crisis revisitation"; etcetera (name your ...

RBA to deliver nothing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2015
... predicting." "You're having a slowdown, you've got the problems on the property side, but I am not one who buys into the hard landing in China." Gene also offered his A$ prediction, "If I was betting, I would probably bet that it does move below 70Ac ...

ANALYSIS: The dragon in the room

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
... still needs to "move from imitation to innovation." Whether that will be possible without triggering a crisis, or a hard landing, is a key question. "We expect a grinding, multi-year economic slowdown but think policymakers will be able to prevent a ...

QIC asks government to step up, break toxic cycle

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015
... to step up to break that cycle," Peter said. QIC has modelled a worst case scenario in which China experiences a hard landing and its government's fiscal stimulus is not successful. In that scenario, the exchange rate would devalue against non-Chinese ...

Hard landing in China could trip Australia

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
The Australian economy risks stumbling if China slows down too fast or ends in a hard landing, Tribeca Investment Partners portfolio manager Sean Fenton said. Fenton alerted that in China "there are real risks there that the slowdown in growth becomes ...

China growth as Li likes it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2015
... recall exactly when it all started - 2010 or 2011? - but year after year after year, "experts" have been predicting a hard landing in China's economy. That "hard landing" was first thought of to be GDP growth of 8% and below - the rate that would cause ...

Nikko AM ups weighting to global shares

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
... said that China's economy will continue to slow faster than consensus, but it does not appear to be headed for a hard landing, the committee believes. It also said problems in Ukraine and Iraq are not likely to escalate dramatically. While investors ...

Anticipatory and moderate adjustments had become necessary

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014
... confident that this year's growth target will be met." "I can promise everyone honestly and solemnly, there won't be a hard landing... The Chinese government is adjusting its economic operations to ensure the minimum growth rate is 7.5 per cent, the ...

The scares that weren't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... Little's were peddling what they peddled best even before 2013 became 2014 - the sky will fall: China would suffer a hard landing (for sure this time), suffer a credit crisis as its property bubble burst... and my oh my, Chinese companies - solar maker ...

Survey reveals investors greatest fear in 2014

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2014
A hard landing in China is the risk investors are most concerned about in the second half of 2014, according to a recent Credit Suisse survey. The financial services company collected data via snap polls of attendees at its fifth annual Global Macro ...