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Chief economist update: Onwards and downwards to a recession?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2018
... gain in the previous three-month period. Another quarter of negative GDP growth would bring it back into a technical recession. Apart from ending the longest stretch of quarterly economic expansions since 1989 - 12 straight quarters of growth between ...

Chief economist update: Crying for Argentina

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2018
... economy a further substantial boost, Valores said. Also, Argentina's economy had been improving in recent times since the recession of 2016; and GDP grew by 3.9% in the year to the December 2017 quarter from 3.8% in the previous quarter. While the central ...

Chief economist update: A$ falls to the occasion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2018
... from US$0.80 to below US$0.60 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 ...

Instos chasing EM debt for value

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2018
... for the first time in a while: synchronised global growth. In EM, there's only one country that will likely remain in recession and that is Venezuela." GSFM operates as the Australian distribution partner for Payden & Rygel, whose EM debt analyst Darren ...

Chief economist update: The other president for life in the making

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
... Moscow by "the West" starting in 2014 as "punishment" for its annexation of Crimea back in 2014, sent the country into recession in 2015 and 2016 but the economy has improved since then. Preliminary estimates show Russia's GDP growth expanded by 1.5% ...

Record high returns elusive in 2018: Economist

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2018
... just gotten better. There's hardly a single economy in the world today, except maybe Russia, which is in any kind of recession," Baur said. The US will likely experience 3% to 3.5% growth boosted by the tax reform package passed in December. Economic ...

Chief economist update: No stealth tapering, no exit strategy...yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2018
... occasions, the Japanese economy was deemed strong enough to withstand an increase in tax on spending. On both occasions a recession ensued. The good news is that the Abe government appears to have learnt from history as shown when he pushed back the ...

Chief economist update: Consumers don't spend on confidence alone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2018
... going in the growth direction. Just like today's synchronised upswing, the global economy has greatly improved from the recession of 2009 (recall, the "green sprouts") and more important for Australia, China's economy was growing at double-digit rates. ...

Australia overdue for company tax cut: Spot poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2018
... is good comes at a price: Higher fiscal deficits and debt levels imply that the room for fiscal stimulus in the next recession will be more limited, he said. This week, we're asking you to predict what financial conditions will likely come true in 20 ...

Un-Keynesian

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2017
... the sky? That's so un-Keynesian. Just as Greece was required to tighten its fiscal expenditure when its economy was in recession (that sent it in direr straits), America is fiscally spending at a time when it doesn't need to. More so, given that the ...