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Chief economist update: Honey, COVID-19 got me sacked

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020
... JobSeeker initiatives. The RBA forecast the unemployment rate to reach 10% in June before settling at 9% by end-2020. The latest OECD (June report) was kinder, predicting the country's jobless rate to rise to 7.4% this year (under a single covid ...

Chief economist update: COVID-19 nightmare makes Brexit a dream

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2020
... Forecasts of rising unemployment - between 8% this year (BOE) to 9.1% (single coronavirus hit) and 10.4% (double hit) from the OECD - suggest further slowdown in domestic consumption. It is not surprising, therefore, that financial markets expect the ...

Chief economist update: The power of money (and a cure)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2020
"...and I think to myself, what a wonderful world." -- Louis Armstrong It seems a long, long time ago but it's only been three whole trading days (June 11) since Wall Street suffered a big fall - the day US benchmark equity indices closed sharply ...

We cannot prevent the blow: PM

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2020
... save every business. "Australia is expected to have the third lowest fall in GDP in 2020 of all economies surveyed by the OECD," Morrison said. "But the hit to our economy, we must understand, is significant despite our relatively strong performance ...

Chief economist update: Australian Renaissance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2020
... Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released figures showing that GDP contracted by 0.3% in the March 2020 quarter - the 'OECD Economic Outlook, June 2020' report has Australia's economy being the least worst among the club of rich nations. ...

Chief economist update: The second wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2020
... that would prompt the re-enforcement of isolation and lockdown measures..." A second wave will be more disastrous. The 'OECD Economic Outlook, June 2020' report forecast US GDP growth to plunge by 8.5% this year "if there is another virus outbreak ...

Government urged to extend stimulus

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2020
The OECD has urged the Australian government to extend stimulus measures and warned that a second wave of infections could derail our economy. In its latest economic outlook report pointed out that while economic activity collapsed in the second quarter ...

Chief economist update: Easing restrictions narrow oil demand-supply equation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2020
... year. The again, oil prices will still be climbing a slippery slope until stockpiles are reduced. According to the IEA: "OECD data for March show that industry stocks rose by 68.2 mb (2.2 mb/d) to 2 961 mb. Total OECD stocks stood 46.7 mb above the five-year ...

Extended lockdown could spur worst recession on record: Grattan

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2020
... households are forced to absorb the costs of an extended shutdown via their own balance sheets," Coates said. Citing new OECD estimates, Coates said even a partial lockdown could see 22% of Australia's economy shut down. "These estimates don't account ...

Frontier warns super fund clients of recession

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2020
... slowdown estimates are much larger than some others like QIC (less than -1% for both short-term and extended COVID-19 impact), OECD, Capital Economics and Oxford, but in line with another study published by Warwick McKibbin and Roshen Fernando. "The ...