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Chief economist update: BOE not letting its guard down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAR 2021
... additional stimulus from the Exchequer from a month earlier. "Since the time of that forecast, developments in global GDP growth have been a little stronger than anticipated, and the substantial new US fiscal stimulus package should provide significant ...

Chief economist update: When 6%-plus growth is deemed too low

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2021
GDP growth of over 6% for 2021. Chinese premier Li Kequiang announced this target growth rate at the opening of the fourth session of the 13th National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing on March 5. Many a time, China's annual economic growth ...

Chief economist update: The do-nothing Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021
... In its 'Summary of Economic Projections', Fed participants - board members and presidents - revised up their GDP growth projections to 6.5% this year (from 4.2% projected in December 2020); 3.3% in 2022 (from 3.2%); before tapering to 2.2% in ...

Chief economist update: ECB gives PEPP talk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAR 2021
... 61.2% from the pandemic low recorded on 18 March 2020. This, notwithstanding only marginal changes in the ECB's GDP growth forecasts. It raised its 2021 growth projection to 4.0% (from the 3.9% it predicted in December 2020) and lowered 2022's ...

Chief economist update: Confidence contagion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021
... relative to its peer, later confirmed by the OECD 'Economic Outlook' March 2020 quarter interim report. Sure, US GDP growth received the biggest upgrade from the OECD - 3.3 percentage points to 6.5% this year - but this owes a great deal to the ...

Chief economist update: OECD sees stronger growth ahead

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2021
... recent months with signs of a rebound in goods trade and industrial production becoming clear by the end of 2020. Global GDP growth is now projected to be 5.6% this year, an upward revision of more than 1 percentage point from the December OECD Economic ...

Chief economist update: Red metal turning red hot

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2021
The latest GDP growth updates show that the world's major economies remain in contraction (in year-on-year terms) at the end of 2020 and despite the roll-out of vaccines, the COVID-19 pandemic (and now its variants) remain with us, triggering stop-and-go ...

Chief economist update: Light at the end of the Euro tunnel

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2021
... also set to support the recovery". In its 'Winter 2021 Economic Forecast' report, the EC predicts that overall GDP growth in 19 countries euro-member countries would be 3.8% this year and in 2022 after contracting by 6.8% in 2020. This compares ...

Chief economist update: China on my mind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2021
... monetary support provided a parachute to falling domestic economic activity so much so the Treasury upgraded its 2020-21 GDP growth forecast to an expansion of 0.75% (MYEFO) from a contraction of 1.5% foreseen in the October Budget - leading to a lower ...

Chief economist update: Government spending made money, saved money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020
... has been found in the pudding in the Australian government's budget update, MYEFO, with the upward revision in GDP growth forecasts and downward revisions in the outlook for the unemployment rate and future budget deficits. Spend and intervened the ...