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Chief economist update: COVID-19 cycle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2020
... suggest that COVID-19 has also returned to Europe. According to Factset: "This week saw a surge in case-growth across major Eurozone economies, raising worries about a second wave derailing the bloc's recovery hopes. Germany recorded its biggest ...

Chief economist update: The V in recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2020
... is not surprising given the V-shaped bounce in most major economies. Markit Economics data show the US, China and the Eurozone all in expansion territory (above 50) in July. Although Japan's composite PMI remains in contraction in July, it had sharply ...

Chief economist update: The next generation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2020
... Near-term, the confidence effect can matter even more than the money itself. The deal will support the recovery of the EU/Eurozone economies with a pro-investment, pro-green and pro-growth tilt. But more importantly, it strengthens the cohesion of the ...

Chief economist update: This rebound is brought to you by the letter V

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2020
... motor of commerce. China led the way, it was the first to shut down and the first to ease restrictions. But it was the Eurozone that suffered the most - underscored by the sharper drop in the IHS/Markit Eurozone PMI that dropped from an expansion reading ...

Chief economist update: The ECB's PEPP economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020
... 2021 (from 1.4%) and 1.3% (from 1.6%) in 2022. This is hardly surprising given the sharp 3.2% (year-on-year) drop in Eurozone GDP in the March 2020 quarter that followed a 1.0% growth in the December 2019 quarter. Despite the recent improvement in the ...

Chief economist update: Australian recession - the next generation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2020
... rate - Australia's 0.3% contraction in the March 2020 quarter is top of the pops compared with the US (-1.3%), the Eurozone (-3.8%), Germany (-2.2%), France (-5.3%), Italy (-5.3), Japan (-0.9%), the UK (-2.0) and China (-9.8%). This justifies the ...

Chief economist update: Better than all the rest

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020
... implementing yield curve control (to step up its support for the economy); the European Central Bank (ECB) warning that the Eurozone economy is approaching its worst-case scenario (a 12% drop in 2020 GDP); Japan unleashing a second supplementary budget ...

Chief economist update: Eurozone contraction heads from mild to severe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
... growth of between 8% (medium) and 12% this year. This is hardly surprising given the sharp 3.2% (year-on-year) drop in Eurozone GDP in the March 2020 quarter that followed a 1.0% growth in the December 2019 quarter. Despite the recent improvement in ...

Chief economist update: Eurozone good news to get worse before it gets better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2020
Recent indications - slowing rate of infections and deaths -- that the Eurozone has passed the peak of its coronavirus pandemic - has member nations either planning to or have already gently eased lockdown and social distancing restrictions, among them ...

Chief economist update: Labor Day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020
... an annualised 33.8% contraction in the economy. Again -- comparing apples with apples -- the latest GDP update on the Eurozone shows that the single-currency region is far from immune. Euro area GDP fell by 3.8% in the March quarter. Annualised, this ...