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Chief economist update: Easing does it (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
... visited five clubs and bars in a popular Seoul neighborhood, health officials said." Coronavirus spread accelerates again in Germany (Reuters) "BERLIN (Reuters) -- New coronavirus infections are accelerating again in Germany just days after its leaders ...

Chief economist update: Eurozone good news to get worse before it gets better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2020
... gently eased lockdown and social distancing restrictions, among them the single currency region's biggest economies - Germany, France, Italy and Spain. This relative optimism is reflected in the sharp drop in the VStoxx (Euro Stoxx 50 Volatility ...

Chief economist update: No escaping the inverted yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2020
... respective curves and are now gradually relaxing restrictions. Among them: Australia, New Zealand, India, Italy, Spain, Germany, Greece, Iran and Saudi Arabia. China, of course, ended its lockdown weeks earlier (7 April). While unlocking lockdowns prematurely ...

Chief economist update: Labor Day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020
... this translates to a 14.4% drop in national (or euro-wide) output with France and Italy now in a technical recession and Germany predicting GDP growth to plummet by 6.3% this year. For sure and for certain, the GDP numbers that will come out from Japan ...

COVID-19 will bite into credit ratings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
... three credit rating agencies - Standard & Poor's, Moody's and Fitch Ratings - namely: Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Sweden, and Switzerland. Good call! Latest available information on each country's ...

A decade in the dust

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... GDP over 2020 and 2021 from the pandemic crisis could be around US$9 trillion, greater than the economies of Japan and Germany, combined," Gopinath said. "For the first time since the Great Depression both advanced economies and emerging market and developing ...

Worse than the Great Depression: IMF

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2020
... GDP over 2020 and 2021 from the pandemic crisis could be around US$9 trillion, greater than the economies of Japan and Germany, combined," Gopinath said. "For the first time since the Great Depression both advanced economies and emerging market and developing ...

Chief economist update: Different contagion, same fiscal policy divide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2020
... witnessed during the time of Grexit, with problem countries arguing for increased deficit spending and fiscally-responsible Germany refusing. The ECB fought the threat of contagion from Grexit and won. Eurozone member governments must band together to ...

Trump slams Fed in Twitter tirade

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2020
... Powell's leadership of the US central bank. "As usual, Jay Powell and the Federal Reserve are slow to act," he tweeted. "Germany and others are pumping money into their economies. Other Central Banks are much more aggressive. The U.S. should have ...

Global stocks plunge as COVID-19 fear accelerates, oil crashes

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
Global markets, already feeling the burn from the spreading COVID-19 virus, have tumbled further, after Saudi Arabia sparked an oil price war which saw oil futures plunge more than 30%. Nearly $140 billion was wiped from the S&P/ASX 200 yesterday, as ...