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Chief economist update: Crude oil to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2019
... requirement ratio - and promises of more monetary and fiscal stimuli - in China; and expectations that the central banks of the Eurozone and Japan would keep their respective monetary policies on ice. The same expectations go for the Reserve Bank of ...

Fed's pause becomes the ECB's problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
... since hitting an 18-month low last November. Not good tidings for an economy that's already losing momentum. Not only has Eurozone GDP growth slowed to 1.6% in the third quarter of last year - the fourth straight quarter of slowdown - but forward indicators ...

Chief economist update: Fed fail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 DEC 2018
... Commodity Total Return Index's year to date return is negative 7.4%. "International developments." China and the Eurozone are slowing, Japan and Germany are a quarter away from a technical recession, Italian budget deficit concerns, Brexit concerns ...

Chief economist update: Aussie property market drop becoming self-fulfilling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2018
We got chills, they're multiplying... How could something so good turn out to be so bad? It was all very good just as 2017 was turning into 2018... so good, that financial markets were pencilling in exit strategies from the world's major economies ...

Chief economist update: RBA more likely to cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2018
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) painted an optimistic picture of the global and domestic economies when it held its policy meeting last month (6 November) before concluding that "...the stance of monetary policy unchanged at this meeting would be ...

Chief economist update: Is TLTRO III coming?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2018
... contraction in Germany (its biggest economy) and nil growth in Italy (its third biggest). The year-on-year growth rate in Eurozone GDP growth more clearly pictures the extent of the slowdown. Economic growth in the single-currency region has eased to ...

Chief economist update: The money is one Fed rate hike next year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2018
... and the lagged effects of the Fed's previous rate hikes. Latest indicators from the major economies of China, the Eurozone and Japan clearly show the loss of growth momentum there. Trump's tax cuts and fiscal spending would not provide the oomph ...

Chief economist update: Slowing in sync

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... tailspin - there's the tussle between Brussels and Italy and its proposed budget deficit and the general slowing in Eurozone economic activity, there's Brexit, and of course, there's Trump's trade war against China. A picture paints a ...

Chief economist update: Cheaper oil greases wheels of growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2018
... synchronised upswing in the globe that was in play in late 2017/early 2018 persisted. But it has not. China is slowing, the Eurozone is losing momentum and an increasing number of emerging economies are either in or heading for contraction. Slowing economies ...

Chief economist update: Oil slick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2018
... until the first quarter of this year is no more - while the US economy continues to go gangbusters, China is slowing, the Eurozone is losing momentum and an increasing number of emerging economies are either in or heading for contraction. Ergo, lesser ...