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Retirement planning gets a recession check

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
As talks about a global recession grow louder, financial advisers and investors are repositioning their clients' nest eggs against a market crash or an economic slowdown. In the past fortnight, a JPMorgan quantitative model predicted a 60% chance ...

Advisers: Keep your clients off A Current Affair

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2018
... faces off A Current Affair. I still believe that." Parker's comments came after he warned delegates of an impending recession, which he believes could take hold in 2020, rather than next year. "It is a late cycle world, there will be a recession at some ...

Chief economist update: Wall Street has fallen, prepare to be greedy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2018
... keep equities down. If ever, the recent rise in bond yields is a good omen. Recall the fear over America heading for a recession because of the flattening yield curve that's under threat of inverting? The yield differential between the 10-year and ...

Labor Government on the cards: Spot poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2018
... readers which of the following events will likely eventuate in the next 12 months: a global trade war; China going into recession; the Labor Party winning the next election or a property crash. Of all the possible scenarios, the majority (40%) of respondents ...

Chief economist update: Famous last words

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2018
... governments and central banks - have learned from the mistakes of the past. Like many others, I was wrong. The "Great Recession of 2008" happened. And before what happened, happened, no less than then Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke was dismissive of the signals ...

Chief economist update: Australian dollar loss is economy's gain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2018
... from US$0.80 to below US$60 during the Asian financial crisis; it fell from around US$0.65 to US$0.49 during the US recession in 2001 and following the September 11 attacks of the same year; and, it dropped from US$0.91 to US$0.62 at the onset of the ...

Chief economist update: Fed funds at five point O

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2018
... rate was higher than the yield on 10-year US Treasuries (yield curve inversion) that was later on followed by the Great Recession. This is one of the reasons why Atlanta Fed president Raphael Bostic and some of his colleagues are advising the Fed to ...

Chief economist update: Minutes of concerns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018
... of the yield curve, given the historical regularity that an inverted yield curve has indicated an increased risk of recession in the US." And rightfully so. The picture below paints it better than 1000 words: But perhaps, a more logical explanation these ...

Chief economist update: Fed flattens the yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2018
... denizens spooked. For one, the flattening of the yield curve is ominous. Though it's not yet inverted (one presages a recession), it's heading lower. The yield differential between the two-year and 10-year US Treasuries has dropped to 0.4% - ...

Japan needs trade peace with the US

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2018
... gain in the previous three-month period. Another quarter of negative GDP growth would bring it back into a technical recession. The details of the National Accounts show that the economy would have contracted by more had it not been from the 0.1 percentage ...