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Dividend payouts stagnate

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2019
... shareholders broke a new record of $513.8 billion in the second quarter, according to Janus Henderson's index, despite the world economy decelerating. In the US, public companies paid dividends at their slowest pace in two years, up 5.3% on an underlying ...

Chief economist update: Tweeting Trump versus totalitarian Xi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 AUG 2019
... points, with perhaps some quantitative easing as well. If that happened, our Economy would be even better, and the World Economy would be greatly and quickly enhanced-good for everyone!"...holds no sway for the independent Fed! The US Federal Reserve ...

Chief economist update: BOE flips tightening bias to easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2019
... car manufacturers." "Recent data also raise the possibility that the negative spillovers to the UK from a weaker world economy are increasing and the drag from Brexit uncertainties on underlying growth here could be intensifying. The latest surveys point ...

Chief economist update: AUD misdirection

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2019
... in January 2019 and 3.7% forecast in October 2018. The IMF "projects a slowdown in growth in 2019 for 70% of the world economy... It reflects negative revisions for several major economies including the euro area, Latin America, the United States, the ...

Chief economist update: EUr next

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2019
... months ago and 3.7% forecast in the October WEO report. The IMF "projects a slowdown in growth in 2019 for 70% of the world economy... It reflects negative revisions for several major economies including the euro area, Latin America, the United States ...

Ideas give insight to opportunity: Vanguard

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2019
... manager's financial adviser roadshow, Vanguard global chief economist and global head of investment Joe Davis said the world economy was down but not out, and would avoid recession. But even if a recession were to occur, Davis isn't perturbed about the ...

Former ambassador assesses US-China trade deal

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2019
... the much smaller economy of the Soviet Union in the cold war. China enjoyed 20 years of integrating into the wider world economy. This period ended when Xi Jinping came to power, even if it wasn't realised at the time, Thawley said. "People were ...

Putting a price tag on clean investing

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2018
Pension funds and asset managers are among those who could create $20 trillion in new wealth if the world economy transitions to zero carbon and zero waste policies, according to new research. Professor Martina Linnenluecke, who leads Macquarie University's ...

Only way is up for global economy: Baur

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 9 JAN 2018
... says it's hard to find any near-term threats to the global economy. Speaking to Financial Standard, Baur said the world economy is travelling better than financial markets, and although this will continue in coming years it is likely to decelerate. At ...

Not showing: inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 JUL 2017
... dollar's ascent. "...while an easier monetary policy elsewhere in the world should lead to faster growth in the world economy, which is good for the Australian economy, an appreciating exchange rate works against this" counteracting, "the benefit to ...