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Chief economist update: BOE going the wrong way?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2019
... managing director Christine Lagarde recently warned: "US-China tariffs-including those implemented last year-could reduce global GDP by 0.5 percent in 2020. This amounts to a loss of about US$455 billion, larger than the size of South Africa's economy." ...

Chief economist update: Oil market slides from bull to bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2019
... global demand takes a hit from even weaker economic activity. In its June report, the World Bank recently downgraded its global GDP growth forecasts to 2.6% this year (from 2.9% it predicted in January) and 2.7% (from 2.8%) in 2020. Similarly, IMF managing ...

Chief economist update: The Budget surplus can wait

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2019
... that could go wrong will go wrong." - Murphy's law. It seems like it for us, Australians all. The latest (although dated) GDP growth figures showed that domestic economic growth slowed to its slowest pace in a decade (in the midst of the Global Financial ...

Chief economist update: ECB exit proves premature

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2019
... of 2019" - changed from "summer 2019" at its April Governing Council meeting - further out sometime in the future. Eurozone GDP growth has slowed to 1.2% in the year to the March 2019 quarter after peaking at 2.8% in the September 2017 quarter. While ...

Compulsory super detrimental: Research

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2019
... Cowan is research director at CIS the director of CIS TARGET30, which aims to reduce government spending to less than 30% of GDP over the next 10 years. His argument against compulsory super is that the current system is having a negative effect on homeownership ...

Property risks dip at Coalition win, APRA easing

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2019
... proposed incentives for first home buyers." The Coalition's election promises of tax cuts, which will represent 0.5% of the GDP, will help consumption but may not be enough to offset falling house prices, according to AMP Capital. "This will help consumption ...

Chief economist update: Devilish details

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2019
... trend, despite being affected by the slowdown in overseas economies for the time being," it said at the time. The topline GDP growth figures give it bragging rights. Japanese GDP growth accelerated to 0.5% in the first quarter of 2019 from 0.4% in the ...

Chief economist update: Fairy tales can come true

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2019
... published in Budget Papers 2018/19: "An increase of US$10 per tonne FOB in the iron ore price results in an increase in nominal GDP of around $5.5 billion in 2018-19 and just over $12 billion in 2019-20. Similarly, a decrease of US$10 per tonne FOB in ...

BetaShares launches new ETF

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2019
... a diversified portfolio of high quality Indian companies. India is one of the fastest growing economies in the world, with GDP projections of ~7% annually to 2023. India already has a significant footprint in the IT sector and is home to companies including ...

Chief economist update: RBA refused to blink in May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2019
... explained the May decision and the central bank's forward guidance. After acknowledging in its April meeting that "the GDP data paints a softer picture of the economy than do the labour market data. GDP rose by just 0.2 per cent in the December quarter ...