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A tale of three PMIs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2017
... could even go beyond the first quarter as the US benefits from the strengthening momentum in the Eurozone and Japanese economies. The Markit flash Eurozone composite PMI jumped to 56.0 in February from 54.4 in the previous month. This is better than ...

Trump matters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2017
... Trump's isolationist policies would certainly affect them more than Australia. But in this world of inter-connected economies and financial markets, what hurts our neighbours would also hurt us.

RBNZ on steady

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2017
... the global outlook, "The recovery in commodity prices and more positive business and consumer sentiment in advanced economies have improved the global outlook."... and increased growth in the local economy. "Economic growth in New Zealand has increased ...

Assets mispriced by monetary policy: Nikko

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2017
... appear to have "bottomed out." He said that monetary policy has exhausted its usefulness as a "blunt instrument" and economies will now turn to fiscal policy to stimulate growth. At the moment, though, given global uncertainty about the ramifications ...

India looking good in Trump's world

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2017
... other emerging markets due to its relative insulation from the trade policies of the Trump administration. Where the economies of China and other Asian nations are driven by exports, India's is primarily fuelled by domestic consumption - equal to 60% ...

Asset manager profits under pressure

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2017
... instruments being the "policy tool of choice" has come to a close with central banks having diminishing impact on domestic economies. Finally, while share of profits in GDP has eclipsed share of wages for the past three decades, Beckwith argued that ...

Trump's tweets and deeds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2017
... from tomjacobsen.tripod.com: "...the Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930, proved to be disastrous for both the US and world economies. It resulted in a general global trade war [with the US, Europe and Asia pursuing "beggar-thy-neighbour policies] and a rapid ...

Don't follow consensus: Baur

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2017
If you want to understand the US and global economies and where they're going, you've got to think outside the box because sometimes the most obvious realities are the hardest to see. That was the key message from Principal Global Investors' chief global ...

Three for three

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2017
... fiscal year 2017 growth outlook to 1.5% from an earlier forecast of 1.3%, mainly reflecting improvement in overseas economies and the yen's depreciation. Core inflation - excluding fresh food - is expected to remain largely unchanged at 1.5% in FY 2017. ...

Global infrastructure goes for growth in 2017

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 2 FEB 2017
'User pay' assets will be an attractive opportunity for investors in 2017, as global economies experience a period of synchronised growth. At a Bennelong media briefing yesterday, 4D Infrastructure's chief investment officer Sarah Shaw gave a positive ...