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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 ...

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 ...