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Chief economist update: Happy New Year rat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2020
"Gong xi fa cai"! China celebrates its lunar new year on January 25 this year, bidding farewell to the "pig" and welcoming the 'Year of the Rat'. Beijing has every reason to be optimistic. Derogatory as it may seem to be called "a rat", this ...

China's growth to slow: PIMCO

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JAN 2020
... hike in the fourth quarter of 2019, but it is expected to pick up in the second half thanks to a large fiscal stimulus package along with steady domestic private demand." Inflation is expected to remain subdued, within the 0.25-0.75% rage as the Bank ...

Chief economist update: War is over

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 DEC 2019
"And so happy Christmas (War is over) For black and for white (If you want it) For yellow and red ones (War is over)..." - John Lennon Well, the trade war's not completely over, but the financial markets' rally on news that a phase one deal ...

Chief economist update: Chinese green shoots?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2019
It might be a mere 0.2 point above the line but it was indication enough that China's manufacturing sector has stopped contracting. The official National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) China manufacturing PMI increased to a reading of 50.2 in November ...

Chief economist update: Whatever it takes, however long it takes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2019
... chorus of dissent from central bank heads and officials from Germany, Austria and the Netherlands against a big stimulus package, Draghi over-delivered. "First, as regards the key ECB interest rates, we decided to lower the interest rate on the deposit ...

Chief economist update: Super Mario's last hurrah

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2019
... inflation rate similarly easing to 0.9% from 1.1%. Yet, several ECB members are voicing their dissent over a stimulus package: Bundesbank vice-president Lautenschlage said "nein" to QE; Dutch central bank president Knot, thinks the outlook is not weak ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2016
Another stimulus package for Japan Japan has announced a stimulus package containing a raft of infrastructure and welfare measures in yet another attempt to jolt the nation's economy back to life. The package, headlined at A$350 billion if you include ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUL 2016
... plan to fund stimulus with more debt Japanese government officials have denied they will fund their proposed stimulus package through the issuing of more debt, reported the Japan Times. "I want to make it clear that we are not planning to issue [deficit ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2016
... of 1.6%. In light of this, reports show that the government plans to hand out a Won20 trillion (US$17 billion) stimulus package "in consideration that worries are growing over the possible contraction of growth and employment in the second half due to ...

Next stop: US payrolls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... the Fed won't raise rates because they can't... They won't hike in June or in September and we will get another stimulus package." (Economist Peter Schiff) The only "masters" Reuters quoted as thinking it will come this year are "Gregory Fleming, president ...