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Chief economist update: Not spring yet in the Eurozone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2019
Green shoots are appearing in the Eurozone just in time for spring. Eurostat reports its preliminary estimates show the single-currency region's GDP increased by 0.4% in the March 2019 quarter - better than market expectations for a 0.3% gain - ...

Chief economist update: RBA May cut, May not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2019
A funny thing happened along the way to the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) scheduled monetary policy meeting on May 7 and ahead of the May 18 Federal Election. While the slowing momentum in Australia's economic and survey indicators, and ...

Chief economist update: S&P raises Duterte ratings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2019
Money talks, prayers walk. This appears to be the overriding theme in the upcoming May 13 mid-term elections in the Philippines where "foul-mouthed and murderous" president Rodrigo Duterte's preferred senatorial and congressional candidates lead ...

Swiss Re to manage Freedom remediation

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2019
... two new directors to its board as it moves ahead winding up its business. Former Fairfax director Doug Halley and James Green have been appointed as non-executive directors on Freedom Insurance Group's board, it said in company filings. The appointments ...

Chief economist update: The Fed pause that refreshes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2019
... leaving the target range unchanged for the remainder of the year," the Fed said. As Louis Armstrong sang, "I see trees of green, red roses too". Not only that, a listing of US news by Trading Economics counts the number of improving stats in America ...

Chief economist update: China is back on track

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2019
... deserves to be congratulated. It's watered and fertilised the economy with enough monetary and fiscal stimulus that green shoots are beginning to appear. The People's Bank of China cut the reserve requirement ratio (RRR) - 0.5% on January 15 ...

Chief economist update: China and the spring in its step

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2019
... further reduction in the reserve requirement ratio for smaller banks. A trade deal between the US and China would help these green shoots develop into full blooms.

Chinese investment in Australia down 36%

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2019
A new report from KPMG has revealed a 36.3% reduction in Chinese investments in Australia, from $13 billion in 2017 to $8.2 billion in 2018. The report was produced by KPMG and The University of Sydney Business School looking at a dataset covering investments ...

Superannuation bills on hold

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2019
Four key pieces of legislation, including the protection of young superannuation members and low-balance accounts from default insurance premiums, have been put on ice. Treasury Laws Amendment (Putting Members' Interests First) Bill 2019, a highly anticipated ...

Chief economist update: AUD misdirection

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2019
Early New Year predictions the Australian dollar would depreciate by the end of 2019 have been given a boost by the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) 'World Economic Outlook, April' report where it shaved its world GDP growth forecast ...