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Chief economist update: Oil's well that ends 2019 well

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 DEC 2019
... to finish 2019 around 30% higher. This year to date, WTI oil has risen by 33.4% to US$60.21 per barrel while the price of Brent oil has rallied by 29.2%. To be sure, new production cuts that will take effect on 1 January 2020 helped support crude prices. ...

Industry's Best of the Best celebrated

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019
Leading wealth management organisations have been celebrated in Money magazine's Best of the Best Awards for 2020. Australia's longest-running and most-read personal finance magazine handed out more than 100 awards to leaders in the financial ...

Chief economist update: Oil to slide into 2020

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2019
... translates into less demand for oil. Note that the IMF's oil price forecast is based on the "simple average of prices of UK Brent, Dubai Fateh, and West Texas Intermediate crude oil". I don't have data for Dubai Fateh but this year to date, the ...

Chief economist update: Plenty of oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2019
... September 14 on Saudi Arabia's Abqaiq oil-processing plant (estimated to produce around 5% of global oil supply). WTI and Brent crude oil prices jumped by 14.6%, to US$62.88 per barrel and US$69.03/barrel, on the first day of trading after the weekend ...

Chief economist update: Oil market slides from bull to bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2019
... concerns sent crude oil into a bear market. WTI oil has fallen by 22.2% to US$51.57/barrel from its April peak of US$66.24. Brent oil has slipped by 19.2% (not quite satisfying the technical definition of a bear market, but getting there) to US$60.56/barrel ...

Insurtech Australia names new chief

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2019
Insurtech Australia has tapped a senior executive from one of its founding partners as its new chief executive. Rita Yates replaces Simon O'Dell, who will become chair, as the organisation gears for growth in 2019. Yates joined Insurtech Australia ...

Chief economist update: The bad oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019
... Lower global growth translates into less demand for oil. Note that this is based on the "simple average of prices of UK Brent, Dubai Fateh, and West Texas Intermediate crude oil." I don't have data for Dubai Fateh but this year to date, the average ...

Pinnacle partners with former Blue Sky executives

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2019
... since been joined by a director Patrick Hayden, who was a director of Blue Sky's US subsidiary. The team also includes Brent Loeskow and Matthew Houlahan, both former investment associates in the Blue Sky Real Assets teams. As a part of the strategic ...

Chief economist update: The RBI surprises (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2019
... out, economies don't operate in a vacuum. Economic dynamics change to disrupt the "steady state". Crude oil prices (Brent oil) have come down US$76.22/barrel in December 2018 from a high US$86.29 in October last year - and are still lower than this ...

Chief economist update: A pretty portrait of an emerging market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2019
... US dollar since the start of 2019 and by 4.3% to P52.08/US$1 from its 2018 low - and the downswing in crude oil prices - Brent oil down by 27.8% from its 2018 high. Philippine inflation has started to slow - headline CPI inflation eased to 4.4% in the ...