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Chief economist update: Iron ore up or iron ore down?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2019
... Australia or as the Budget Papers put it, along with other commodity prices, "a key uncertainty in the outlook for nominal GDP." The Budget Strategy and Outlook 2018-19 paper forecasts iron ore prices of US$55/tonne in 2018/19 and 2019/2020 while at ...

Chief economist update: Prepare for lift-off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2019
... emerging market peers. But no thanks. Being a crosshair of Trump's trade rifle, China's economy slowed and its target GDP growth recently adjusted from 6.5% to a band of 6.0% - 6.5%. That's where we are so far in the world in 2019 and it'll ...

Chief economist update: European Central Bank policy U-turn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019
... the threat of protectionism and vulnerabilities in emerging markets." So much so the ECB staff has once again lowered its GDP growth projections to 1.1% this year and 1.6% in 2020. This compares with the last forecast of 1.7% this year (lowered from ...

Australia in effective recession: Academic

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2019
... 0.2% growth in gross domestic product for the three months to December 2018. Consumer spending grew at 0.4% in the quarter. GDP per capita shrunk in both Q3 and Q4. UNSW Business School's Richard Holden labelled the GDP is "very poor" and should ...

Chief economist update: Cash rate should be 1%

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2019
... Australian economy has slowed - big time. The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) National Accounts report showed that GDP grew by a mere 0.2% in the December 2018 quarter from 0.3% in the previous three-month period, taking the annual growth ...

Chief economist update: A capitalist in communist clothes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2019
... the measures at the opening of the National People's Congress on March 5, simultaneous with his revelation of a lower GDP growth target from 6.5% to 6%-6.5% this year. China's GDP growth slowed to 6.4% in the December 2018 quarter (down from ...

Chief economist update: Time to pig out on China shares?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2019
... the 12 animal signs of the lunar calendar zodiac originated - China. This is against consensus expectations that China's GDP growth would continue to slide from the below target rate of 6.4% in 2018 to 6.2% (IMF forecast) - 6.3% (WB and UN) this ...

Chief economist update: US economic growth is slowing and accelerating

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2019
... growth continues to accelerate in the last quarter of 2018. Both are correct statements. It only depends what measurement of US GDP growth rate is used. The US Bureau of Economic Analysis' (BEA) uses the "annualised growth rate" to measure changes ...

Chief economist update: The RBI surprises (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2019
... growth to 7.1% in the year to the third quarter of 2018 (latest available) from 8.2% in the previous quarter. The RBI projects GDP growth of "7.4% (7.2-7.3% in H2) and at 7.5% for H1:2019-20, with risks somewhat to the downside" and and inflation "to ...

Chief economist update: BOJ exit last year, BOJ easing this year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2019
... after the Cabinet Office released its latest National Accounts report and showed the country dodged a recession. Japanese GDP grew 0.3% in the December 2018 quarter following a 0.7% contraction in the previous quarter, lifting the annualised economic ...