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Chief economist update: Currency manipulators beware

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2019
... The reason the US dollar is fetching a higher exchange rate than its counterparts today is because the US economy's outlook (slowing as it is) is relatively better than its trading partners. This is the reason why other world central banks are maintaining ...

Chief economist update: BOJ Tankan tanking?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2019
... of Japan (BOJ) nominated "the consequences of protectionist moves and their effects" as one of the major risks to its outlook that its economy is "likely to continue on a moderate expanding trend" at its June monetary policy meeting. The BOJ's latest ...

Chief economist update: Expect an RBNZ rate cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2019
... May board meeting could be counter-productive, indicating a sense of urgency (if not, panic) on the domestic economic outlook. Then again, the RBNZ board thinks: "Given the weaker global economic outlook and the risk of ongoing subdued domestic growth ...

Chief economist update: ECB to leave no policy tool unturned

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2019
... Core inflation weakened to 0.8% from 1.3% in the year to April. As Draghi pointed out in his speech in Sintra: "The risk outlook remains tilted to the downside, and indicators for the coming quarters point to lingering softness." The ECB may have to ...

Chief economist update: Surveys back All Ords climb

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2019
... modestly. Finally, sentiment improved to its highest since January amid optimism following the federal election and new orders outlook." The details show the services PMI rose to a seven-month high reading of 53.3 in June (from 51.5 in May) - supported ...

Yarra hires head of macro, strategy

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2019
... will advise the firm's fixed income and equities teams. Tim Toohey will work closely with Yarra on financial markets outlook and asset allocation, as its new head of macro and strategy. Toohey spent 15 years at Goldman Sachs as the chief economist ...

Chief economist update: Fed plans for Trump contingency

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2019
... and inflation near the Committee's symmetric 2% objective as the most likely outcomes, but uncertainties about this outlook have increased," according to the FOMC statement. According to the transcript of chair Powell's press conference opening ...

Chief economist update: Cash is King

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2019
... or was it Janet Yellen?) once blurted out, we decide on domestic monetary policy based on our domestic conditions and outlook, not on global circumstances. But as the inverted US yield curve forewarns, America would be in recession 12-18 months from ...

Chief economist update: Australian bull market here we come

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2019
... logical explanation for the Australian equity markets recent rally is that on a relative basis the domestic economy's outlook fares relatively better than the US (yield curve inversion predicts a coming recession); the low growth economies of the ...

Chief economist update: Oil market slides from bull to bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2019
... and Japan, among others; and (at the time) hopes for a US-China trade deal, improving sentiment over the global growth outlook and therefore, oil demand. Taken alongside, supply disruptions/sanctions in Venezuela, Libya, Iran and others, plus the implementation ...