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Chief economist update: Who's afraid of COVID-19?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2020
... infects more of the globe) and to 1.3% for the 2020's entirety. Wait, there's more. Oxford expects the US and the Eurozone to go into technical recessions in the first half of 2020. Finance ministers and central bank governors from G20 nations ...

Chief economist update: Steady as it was, steady it will be

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2020
... "Tentative Stabilization, Sluggish Recovery?" contained in its January 2020 'World Economic Outlook" was all about the Eurozone. "Growth in the euro area is projected to pick up from 1.2 percent in 2019 to 1.3 percent in 2020 (a downward revision ...

Chief economist update: A busy 2020 for Abe, BOJ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2020
... downgrade from its June 2019 forecasts -- before re-accelerating to 1.5% in 2021. It downgraded its forecasts for the Eurozone to 1.1% in 2019 (0.2 pps lower than the June prediction) and sees growth in the single currency region slowing to 1.8% in 2020 ...

Chief economist update: Changing to Lagarde

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019
... year (up from September's forecast of 1.1%), 1.1% in 2020 (from 1.2%), and 1.4% in both 2021 (from 1.4%) and 2022. Eurozone real GDP growth expanded by 1.2% in the year to the September 2019 quarter - the same growth rate as in the June quarter. ...

Chief economist update: Eurozone negative rates a failure?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2019
... in-between - had been successful. I didn't dub him Super Mario for nothing (yes, I was the first to call him that!). Eurozone GDP growth started to improve from the recession borne of Grexit and fears of contagion in 2013 to a peak of 3.0% annual ...

Chief economist update: Let's talk about debt

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2019
Financial Standard had been calling for it, central banks have, and now it's the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). In its latest bi-annual economic global economic report released this month, the OECD maintained its Australian ...

Chief economist update: The yen to dictate if BOJ turns words into action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2019
... same period. This is counter-intuitive given the comparative monetary policy settings between the US and Japan and the Eurozone and Japan. However, it could be that recent positive reports over the US-China trade negotiations may have reduced safe-haven ...

Chief economist update: Arrivederci Signor Draghi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2019
... be expected after it announced a big one (so far) a month prior (in September), where Mario's parting gift to the Eurozone economy and financial markets everywhere was revving up monetary policy stimulus measures: An economic bulletin reads: "The ...

Chief economist update: The greatest central banker of modern times

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2019
... instruments from rates to asset purchases to forward guidance are ready to be calibrated." To be sure, the outlook for the eurozone appears to be deteriorating. The Markit Eurozone composite index has fallen closer to the expansion/contraction dividing ...

Chief economist update: Germany in the budget's shadow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2019
The Global Financial Crisis of 2008 gave birth to "non-conventional monetary policy" - where many developed country central banks lowered interest rates to zero/negative and/or engaged in quantitative easing. While these prevented the "Great Recession" ...