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Chief economist update: As low as Lowe will go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2019
... see the official cash rate lowered to 0.25%? The overriding answer, of course, is it depends. It depends on how the US trade war - primarily with China - goes, the US-Australia interest rate differential (which largely determines the whether the AUD$ ...

Chief economist update: Cloudy 2020 vision for OECD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2019
... uncertainty for business and with it, continued postponement of business investment. The risk of a further escalation in the trade war - both in the amount of tariffs imposed and the breadth of countries affected - are inhibiting companies' capital ...

Chief economist update: Santa Claus is coming to town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2019
... ahead. To be sure, US equity indices have been rising despite global economic concerns centred on the ill-effects of the trade war and underscored by fears of a looming US recession predicted by the inverted yield curve. The only explanation being that ...

Chief economist update: RBA holds but for how long?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2019
... growth from a peak of 6.2% in 2014 to 2.2% by August 2017 and 1.6% in September of the same year. And that was before the trade war and the slowdown in global growth momentum, among others. Two and a bit years on and household consumption remain weak ...

WTW launches first Australian-domiciled fund, names RE

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2019
Willis Towers Watson (WTW) has launched its first Australian-domiciled fund and appointed a responsible entity. The Global Equities Focus Fund (GEFF) will launch this month and "capture only the best investment ideas from the world's top global ...

No room for policy mistakes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2019
... sure, Dr Georgieva has already warned about this in her inaugural speech on the 6th of October "Everyone loses in a trade war. For the global economy, the cumulative effect of trade conflicts could mean a loss of around US$US700 billion by 2020, or about ...

Fixed income investors spooked by global politics: Fitch

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 OCT 2019
A Fitch Ratings report has found Australian fixed-income investors consider political and geopolitical risk to be the greatest threat to domestic credit markets in the year to come. The Fitch Ratings fourth quarter 2019 fixed-income investor survey ...

One in three chance of global recession: Aviva

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 14 OCT 2019
... long-run averages, see limited scope for a sustained move higher. "That said, if there was a permanent resolution to the trade war, something we currently put a very low probability on, it could be the catalyst for a re-rating, particularly for value ...

Chief economist update: Synchronised forecasts for a synchronised slowdown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2019
... Kristalina Georgieva warning of a synchronised slowdown. In her inaugural speech, Georgieva declared: "Everyone loses in a trade war. For the global economy, the cumulative effect of trade conflicts could mean a loss of around $US700 billion ($1 trillion) ...

Chief economist update: Are capital markets the next Sino-US battleground?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2019
... market trading since Trump first declared increased tariffs on steel and aluminium back in March 2018, followed by the trade war with China. Sure there were brief periods of peace but those following the Sino-Yankee trade war skirmish would note that ...