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Chief economist update: The crash we have to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
... Korea's missile launches, Brexit and Trump's trade war -- and other challenges in-between -- proved no match for central bank money Throw enough money at the problem and the problem will go away. ZIRP (zero interest rate policy), NIRP (negative ...

EM debt relatively unscathed by virus: Research

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2020
... past 24 hours, excluding the cases on the Diamond Princess cruise ship," they said. "Many of the cases on the rise in South Korea, Iran and Italy have no known connection to China." While the short-term effect is not as bad as originally expected, the ...

Chief economist update: Equity markets struck by coronavirus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2020
... per cent fall in world output. But this one I found on the internet - reportedly a comment made by an FX strategist at Saxo Bank -- takes the cake, saying: "A response to a serious outbreak threat could mushroom into a major economic catastrophe as even ...

Future Fund chief most influential public investor

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2019
... undertaken, with a focus on featuring new names. Future Fund chief executive David Neal came in at the top spot, beating Bank of Korea governor Lee Ju-yeol. But he wasn't the only Australian in the top three. Cbus chief executive David Atkin nabbed ...

Chief economist update: The hazard of being a safe haven

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2019
... lists - the "Land of the Rising Sun" had been absent from the headlines. The last headline news out of Japan was when the Bank of Japan (BOJ) conducted its monetary policy meeting on July 30, deciding to keep the status quo - interest rate at -0.1% and ...

Chief economist update: Will Australia avoid another global recession?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2019
... everybody - China, Mexico, Iran, the EU, climate change, etc. The debilitating effect of which has now prompted Japan and South Korea to engage in a trade war of their own. There's Brexit and the recent contraction in Germany's economy and increased ...

Chief economist update: Global easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2019
In his outing before the Australian House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics on August 9, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor Philip Lowe practically gave his nod of approval in Financial Standard 's clear as the crystal ball's ...

Chief economist update: Look out below

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2019
... and, for sure and for certain, it's gonna irritate Trump. Financial markets were shell-shocked after the People's Bank of China (PBOC) allowed the yuan to fall below the psychological threshold of CNY7.0 per US dollar. The official CNY/US$ exchange ...

Chief economist update: Currency manipulators beware

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2019
... clear decision. A wide variety of factors can influence exchange rates, including government purchases of currency or central bank moves, and labeling a country a currency manipulator involves ascribing intent." Trump has to start somewhere before he ...

Emerging markets for the win: ABDO

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2019
... investment operations from Elders and changed the name to Pyrford International, it's current name. It was acquired by the Bank of Montreal Group in 2007. Campbell retired in 2015 and has stayed on as a strategic adviser. In Australia, Michael Angwin ...