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Putting a price tag on clean investing

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2018
... created by the development of cleantech patents ranges from US$10.16 to US$15.49 trillion dollars which is 13%-20% of the world GDP in 2017. Additionally, this will involve an extra investment stimulus to the economy from US$2.93 to US$3.71 trillion ...

Chief economist update: A prelude to a rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2018
... thereby, act as a shock absorber to the global shocks buffeting the domestic economy. The disappointing National Accounts - where GDP slowed to an annual rate of 2.8% in the September quarter (from 3.1% in the previous one) - bears this out with exports ...

Chief economist update: RBA more likely to cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2018
... point of stagnation. Japan's economy contracted by 0.3% in the third quarter (from 0.8% in the second); the Eurozone's GDP growth halved to just 0.2% in the September quarter (from 0.4%); and the UK's growth remains uncertain due to Brexit. ...

Chief economist update: Is TLTRO III coming?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2018
... growth slowdown appears to be gaining momentum. After growing at a quarterly rate of 0.7% in each of the four quarters of 2017, GDP growth has slowed to 0.4% in the first and second quarters of 2018 and by just 0.2% in the third - led by a 0.2% contraction ...

Chief economist update: Predictions allude to frozen RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2018
... numbers on it. "Growth forecasts for next year have been revised down for most of the world's major economies. Global GDP is now expected to expand by 3.5% in 2019, compared with the 3.7% forecast in last May's Outlook, and by 3.5% in 2020." ...

Chief economist update: Finding neutral

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2018
... bulb? A: Eight. One to screw it in and seven to hold everything else constant. Neutral interest rate of 3%, assuming potential GDP, NAIRU and productivity growth are constant. I can go on and on but my point is that no one really knows where the neutral ...

Chief economist update: The Middle Kingdom's middling growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2018
... Tuesday of August 2016 when it dropped interest rates from 1.75%. The RBA is stuck between positive growth fundamentals - GDP expanded by 3.4% in the year to the second quarter (the fastest in six years) and the unemployment rate dropped to 5.3% in September ...

Chief economist update: BOE waiting on Brexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2018
... growth has been stronger than expected, rising to over 3%. Although modest by historical standards, the projected pace of UK GDP growth is slightly faster than the diminished rate of supply growth, which averages around 11/2% per year. A margin of excess ...

Chief economist update: Eurozone growth slowing fast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2018
... looking at the third quarter economic scorecard in the Eurozone. Advance estimates show that the single currency region's GDP grew by a mere 0.2% in the September quarter - half the previous two quarters 0.4% rate, half market expectations for a ...

Chief economist update: Shopaholics drive US growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
... as measured by the PCE price index - the Fed's favoured inflation gauge - has yet to accelerate. On the contrary, the GDP report shows that inflation has instead weakened. The PCE price index gained 1.6% in the year to the September quarter, down ...