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Westpac profits down 24%, dividend flat

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2019
... Plan will continue and a 1.5% discount will be applied to the market price, to add capital flexibility. The bank expects the GDP growth to hold at 2.2%, inflation to remain low, and employment growth to likely slow. "House prices are likely to remain ...

Chief economist update: Not spring yet in the Eurozone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2019
... in the Eurozone just in time for spring. Eurostat reports its preliminary estimates show the single-currency region's GDP increased by 0.4% in the March 2019 quarter - better than market expectations for a 0.3% gain - from 0.2% in the December 2018 ...

Chief economist update: RBA May cut, May not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2019
... in biases towards less hawkish policy settings would, in time, reverse the slowing momentum in most global economies. "The GDP data paint a softer picture of the economy than do the labour market data. GDP rose by just 0.2 per cent in the December quarter ...

Chief economist update: S&P raises Duterte ratings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2019
... fiscal accounts, low public indebtedness, and the economy's sound external settings." Love him or loathe him, Philippine GDP growth has remained buoyant despite the slowdown in the global economy and trade wars that continue to afflict his term. ...

Chief economist update: A good problem to have?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2019
... strong growth and below-target inflation is a good problem to have. This is underscored by the latest stat updates that saw GDP grow by a stronger than expected annualised rate of 3.2% in the March 2019 quarter, not to mention the unemployment rate that ...

Chief economist update: Lock in two RBA rate cuts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2019
... formula, given the relative deviations of inflation (1.4% average of trimmed mean and weighted median) from target (2.0%-3.0%), GDP growth (2.3% in Q4 2018) from potential (3.0%) and the neutral cash rate (1.5%), the nominal official cash rate should ...

Chief economist update: China is back on track

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2019
... billion) of liquidity into the economy. This was followed by fiscal easing measures - budget deficit target raised to 2.8% of GDP this year from 2.6% in 2018; CNY2.0 trillion tax cuts; a 3% cut in the top bracket VAT rate; raised local government special ...

Chief economist update: China and the spring in its step

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2019
... Millard Kaufman came to mind when I read about China's recent economic data dump in the first month of spring. China's GDP growth stabilised at 6.4% in the year to the March 2019 quarter - better than market expectations (extrapolations?) for ...

Chief economist update: AUD misdirection

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2019
... boost by the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) 'World Economic Outlook, April' report where it shaved its world GDP growth forecast to 3.3% this year - down from the 3.5% rate predicted in January 2019 and 3.7% forecast in October 2018. ...

Chief economist update: EUr next

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2019
... the EU, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) released its "World Economic Outlook, April" report which shaved the global GDP growth outlook to 3.3% this year - down from 3.5% predicted only three months ago and 3.7% forecast in the October WEO report. ...