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Chief economist update: Fed has Trump's trade war number

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2019
... pull back on investment and production. They concluded that globally and in the United States, its impact is around 1% to GDP... through early next year. With U.S. GDP estimated at about $20 trillion, and world GDP at about $85 trillion, a 1% impact ...

Time to reset member return expectations?

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2019
... typified by the issuance of bonds with negative coupons by several European countries. Meanwhile, global debt sits at 225% of GDP at USD$184 trillion and the RBA cash rate is at a record low of 1%. According to Rice Warner, it all adds up to a "massive ...

Chief economist update: Economy slows to decade low but still tops the pops

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2019
... years. More disturbing, take away the 0.5 percentage point contribution from "government consumption" to the 0.5% quarterly GDP growth rate and the economy would have grown by zilch (0%). Factor in the 0.3 pps contribution from imports - an addition ...

Chief economist update: This land is ours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2019
... airport, the hit on the country's tourism industry would be non-negligible. More so, because tourism's contribution to GDP has grown to 17.4% (as at 2018) from 13.9% in 2008. This comes on the back of an already slowing economy. Hong Kong GDP ...

Chief economist update: The fear of Brexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2019
... the EU." It's just the uncertainty - or in Bacon's words "the fear of death" - that makes Brexit fearsome. Sure, UK GDP has contracted by 0.2% in the June 2019 quarter, but so has Germany (-0.1%) - the EU's biggest economy - and Italy's ...

Chief economist update: What price Australian budget surplus?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2019
... before him. According to the Budget Papers 2019-2020, Australia's underlying cash balance would be A$7.1 billion (0.4% of GDP) in the black - backed by assumptions that GDP would grow by 2.75% (1.8% in the year to the March 2019 quarter); the unemployment ...

Super debate too one dimensional: Rice Warner

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2019
... by reducing the nation's reliance on the Age Pension. "The cost of the Age Pension is expected to reduce from 2.6% of GDP to 2.1% by the end of the century. Our national spend on state pensions, as a percentage of GDP, is amongst the lowest, and ...

Chief economist update: US recession a sure thing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 AUG 2019
... basis points, and indeed has been in the negative range since August. Projecting forward using past values of the spread and GDP growth suggests that real GDP will grow at about a 1.7% rate over the next year." As it turned out, US GDP contracted at ...

Super sector needs to end culture war

KRISTI CHENG  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2019
... dominate the economy" with the total value of assets in Australia's superannuation system at $2.8 trillion, or about 150% of GDP. According to Rice Warner research, Australian superfunds are also expected to own 20% of all listed Australian companies ...

Chief economist update: The UK is not OK

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2019
When it met on August 1, the Bank of England (BOE) rightly anticipated slower GDP growth in the second quarter, saying: "After growing by 0.5% in 2019 Q1, GDP is expected to have been flat in Q2... reflecting both the impact of intensifying Brexit-related ...