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Chief economist update: Euro contagion redux?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2019
... England (BOE) to cut its GDP growth outlook to 1.2% this year (previously prior 1.7%) and 1.5% (from 1.7%) in 2020. Contagion here we come? Again?

Final call for 2019 Chief Economists Forum

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 DEC 2018
... impact Chinese consumers and the wider economy. The final factor is the consideration of whether emerging markets are in contagion. He believes Brazil's story will prove this to be a myth - especially as new President Jair Bolsonaro begins in January ...

Chief economist update: Super Mario keeps his cool

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
... governments' deficits" and that "I'm still confident an agreement will be found." But it should be given the threat of contagion to other countries in the single-currency region. Italian bond yields have soared to a four-year high of 3.62% from ...

Super funds cut exposures to banks

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2018
... superannuation, banking and the housing sector, which constitutes 70% of bank loans, are intensely commingled. The potential for contagion risk is therefore high," the report said. "But while Australian equities stock holdings are very concentrated ...

NZ Super Fund delivers 12.4pct, braces for future

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2018
... conditions are tightening with the withdrawal of central bank liquidity. While trade tensions have been escalating, the contagion into financial markets has been limited to date," Whineray said. "While the fund remains heavily weighted towards growth ...

Chief economist update: Turkey's roasted

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2018
... interest rates. It would have been so easy to ignore the developing crisis in Turkey were it not for the problem of contagion. News reports reveal that some banks in France, Italy and Spain have debt exposure to Turkey. The deeper the Turkish lira dives ...

Eurozone ascending

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2017
... creditors) - but nah, ever since Greece burned the Grexit bridge out of the Eurozone and said they'll stay, the threat of contagion faded away - economic activity in the single currency area have gaining momentum. This is a fact not lost on ECB president ...

Decidedly undecided

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 APR 2017
... fresh uncertainty, not only for France but on the Eurozone and the European Union as a whole - i.e., Frexit and its contagion effects. Volatility here come. Just as Napoleon Bonaparte quipped, "The most dangerous moment comes with victory."

Where's the Brexit-induced recession?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2016

Britons vote 'Adieu EU'

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2016