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Chief economist update: Another five minutes of sunshine?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018
Australians all, let us rejoice! Our economy is in pole position. The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) National Accounts report showed the economy expanded by 3.1% in the year to the March quarter, accelerating from the 2.4% in the previous ...

Chief economist update: A prelude to an RBA cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2018
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) didn't disappoint when it kept the official cash rate unchanged at a record low 1.5% following its June 5 board meeting. Except for a few tweaks in the wordings here and there, RBA Governor Philip Lowe's statement ...

Chief economist update: Rush hour is over for the BOE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2018
We are one and we are many, and all of us don't expect any movement from the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) when it meets at 2.30pm today for its monthly monetary policy deliberations. Yes Virginia, RBA Governor Philip Lowe has already gone on ...

Chief economist update: China's neo-great leap forward

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2018
Quitaly and Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's exit and the curious case of the US-North Korea summit have drowned China's modern version of the "Great Leap Forward". The first day of June marked when MSCI included Chinese A-shares into ...

Chief economist update: Capex and credit and the trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2018
Just when the threatening clouds of Quitaly and its negative repercussions on the whole of the Eurozone has dissipated, US President Donald Trump's trade protectionist policy in the name of American national security comes back to haunt. Not that ...

Chief economist update: Building approvals on a slowing trend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2018
The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) latest update on building approvals is consistent with views of slowing activity in the country's housing market. But perhaps, not as dire as the headline seasonally-adjusted monthly numbers suggest. ...

Chief economist update: "Quitaly"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2018
Move over China and North Korea, you too Iran and Israel, a new old crisis has come back to town...and it could be bigger. While the financial market world still haven't seen the end game of US President Donald Trump's protectionist trade policies ...

Chief economist update: Should have sold in May and gone away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2018
The sharp turnaround in the All Ordinaries index from the 2018 low of 5859.15 points plumbed on April 3 to 6234.95 points - 6.5 points short of this year's high of 6241.46 points (January) - by May 14 it had almost prompted me to declare that 2018 ...

Chief economist update: Italy and Spain an emerging ECB problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2018
Geo-politics remain the talk of the financial markets as Trump's rolling circus again came to the fore with his flip-flop-flip over the US-North Korean summit - just a day after Trump cancelled the summit, he declared it back on again. Make what ...

Chief economist update: Erdogan's Turkey is cooked

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2018
I'm all for transparency but some discussions or disagreements are better resolved behind closed doors. Not for the limelight/spotlight-hogging president of the US. Donald Trump didn't take to Twitter this time, he penned an open letter to tell ...