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Chief economist update: War is over

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 DEC 2019
"And so happy Christmas (War is over) For black and for white (If you want it) For yellow and red ones (War is over)..." - John Lennon Well, the trade war's not completely over, but the financial markets' rally on news that a phase one deal ...

Chief economist update: Australian economy gently turning which way?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2019
... be a turning point lower... and that's not even factoring in the persistent uncertainty surrounding Trump's trade war with the world. My back of the envelope calculations show that the Australian economy needs to grow by a bit over 0.8% over ...

China still positive despite unrest

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2019
... keep up with the trajectory the business is now on." However, the growing uncertainty surrounding Hong Kong and the trade war has some investors spooked. Speaking at the Fidelity Emerging Markets Forum in Sydney, Catherine Yeung, Fidelity investment ...

Chief economist update: Lower rates still fail to animate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019
Uh-oh...we might be getting in trouble now. Not only are Australian households not lifting their spending despite the drop in the official cash rate to a record low 0.75% but it's looking a lot like businesses aren't too. The Australian Bureau ...

Chief economist update: As low as Lowe will go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2019
... see the official cash rate lowered to 0.25%? The overriding answer, of course, is it depends. It depends on how the US trade war - primarily with China - goes, the US-Australia interest rate differential (which largely determines the whether the AUD$ ...

Chief economist update: Cloudy 2020 vision for OECD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2019
... uncertainty for business and with it, continued postponement of business investment. The risk of a further escalation in the trade war - both in the amount of tariffs imposed and the breadth of countries affected - are inhibiting companies' capital ...

Chief economist update: Santa Claus is coming to town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2019
... ahead. To be sure, US equity indices have been rising despite global economic concerns centred on the ill-effects of the trade war and underscored by fears of a looming US recession predicted by the inverted yield curve. The only explanation being that ...

Chief economist update: RBA holds but for how long?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2019
... growth from a peak of 6.2% in 2014 to 2.2% by August 2017 and 1.6% in September of the same year. And that was before the trade war and the slowdown in global growth momentum, among others. Two and a bit years on and household consumption remain weak ...

WTW launches first Australian-domiciled fund, names RE

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2019
Willis Towers Watson (WTW) has launched its first Australian-domiciled fund and appointed a responsible entity. The Global Equities Focus Fund (GEFF) will launch this month and "capture only the best investment ideas from the world's top global ...

No room for policy mistakes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2019
... sure, Dr Georgieva has already warned about this in her inaugural speech on the 6th of October "Everyone loses in a trade war. For the global economy, the cumulative effect of trade conflicts could mean a loss of around US$US700 billion by 2020, or about ...