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Chief economist update: ECB exit proves premature

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2019
... end of 2019" - changed from "summer 2019" at its April Governing Council meeting - further out sometime in the future. Eurozone GDP growth has slowed to 1.2% in the year to the March 2019 quarter after peaking at 2.8% in the September 2017 quarter. While ...

Chief economist update: Countdown to T-day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2019
... expect this to trigger a global recession." And that's only with the Sino-Yankee trade war. Recall Trump has put the Eurozone and Japan on notice. War - in any form - is really good for "absolutely nothing". Timecheck: It's now 9pm on Thursday ...

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: Inflation is dead

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 APR 2019
... western, capitalist central bank targets 2.0% inflation). Latest inflation data shows inflation in the US at 1.9%; the Eurozone at 1.4%; Japan at 0.5%; the UK at 1.9%; and lately, Australia at 1.3%. The clue, of course, lies in the behaviour of wages. ...

Chief economist update: Japan yearns for a weaker yen

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2019
... inflation suggest yen depreciation, its relative monetary policy differential, particularly against the United States and the Eurozone, indicates otherwise. Time for the BOJ to "consider easing policy."

Chief economist update: ECB digs deeper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2019
... chance that this will see the light of day. More so, given the latest downgrade to German (the largest economy in the eurozone) growth forecasts to 0.8% in 2019 from 1.9% and Italy (the third biggest) to 0.1% from 1%. The two accounts for around 45% ...

Chief economist update: Woe to the world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2019
... falling: US 10-year Treasury bond yield down by 0.09% to 2.59% since the start of 2019; Australia down by 0.34% to 1.98%; Eurozone down by 0.16% to 0.08%; Japan down by 0.04% to -0.04%. (Declining bond yields mean rising bond prices)." But warned: "If ...

Chief economist update: Be fearful when indicators show no fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2019
... falling: US 10-year treasury bond yield down by 0.09% to 2.59% since the start of 2019; Australia down by 0.34% to 1.98%; Eurozone down by 0.16% to 0.08%; and Japan down by 0.04% to -0.04%. But in case you haven't noticed, the volatility (fear") ...

Chief economist update: Euro contagion redux?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2019
... (an upgrade from 1.7% forecast in October 2018). Fast forward 12 months, the IMF's January 2019 WEO update printed eurozone growth of just 1.6% this year and 1.7% in 2020. According to the IMF, "Growth rates have been marked down for many economies ...

Chief economist update: La vita is no longer e bella

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2019
... that's amore..." But Italians may not be in the mood for "amore", not when their economy - the third biggest in the Eurozone - is officially in a technical recession. La vita is no longer e bella! Italian GDP contracted by 0.2% in the December 2018 ...