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Where's the Brexit-induced recession?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2016

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2016
... rate of 3.3% in the June quarter is the fastest since the June quarter of 2012 and marked the economy's 25th year of recession-free performance. The year-on-year rate of growth has been consistently accelerating since it bottomed at 2.0% in the June ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2016
... favourite doom forecaster, Professor Steve Keen, is at it again this time warning not just that Australia is headed for recession as early as next year but that house prices could fall by anywhere between 40 and 70%. While Keen's repeated forecasts have ...

China ready to dominate: Nikko AM

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2016
... spending being enough to put a floor under a lot of the concerns we had last year." This means, he continued, that a recession in China is unlikely, despite the suspicions of certain market commentators: "What are the main risks? That the banking system ...

Returning Fed hike expectations could be flattened by yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2016
... yield curve and history shows that a flat yield curve presages an economic slowdown (an inverted one is followed by a recession). The 10-year/2-year yield differential is now down to 0.76% from 1.21% at the start of 2016. This could give the Fed pause ...

PROFILE: Industry Super Australia chief economist Stephen Anthony

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2016
... before. Aside from the GFC, the chief economist entered the workforce at the same time Australia was working through the recession it "had to have." He began studying economics at La Trobe University and graduated with first-class honours in the early ...

Eurozone splintering is biggest risk in Brexit fallout

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2016
... Brexit, UK companies will reduce investment and hiring and European consumers will curtail spending, leading to a European recession "as a base case." He added, though, that "while it is premature to predict whether this predicates a global recession." ...

Britons vote 'Adieu EU'

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2016

Australia on top

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2016
... perhaps my next-door neighbour (and lately, my sister-in-law) is correct all along... that Australia is and had been in recession for as long as they remember. The All Ordinaries index dropped by 1.0% on the day the Australian National Accounts were ...

Investors face 'radical uncertainty': PIMCO

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2016
... be aware of the heightened risk of policy collapse. It noted that while the global economy has so far avoided another recession, the system has only avoided collapse because of "zero or even negative policy rates in many countries, the gusher of liquidity ...