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Chief economist update: Fed fail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 DEC 2018
... Eurozone are slowing, Japan and Germany are a quarter away from a technical recession, Italian budget deficit concerns, Brexit concerns, and the shrinking of global trade (because of tariff Trump), among others. For the life of me I can't imagine ...

Chief economist update: Does the Fed lift or cut interest rates just for the heck of it?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2018
... barring another confidence vote against a sitting PM within the next 12 months means that May will be taking the UK to Brexit after all. Whether or not the parliament will vote for the deal she negotiates with the EU is another matter altogether but ...

Chief economist update: So much Brexit uncertainty, so little time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2018
When UK prime minister Theresa May declared that "Brexit is Brexit" and "no Brexit deal is better than a bad Brexit deal" when she addressed EU ambassadors in London on the 17 January 2017, she laid out 12 objectives for Brexit negotiations: 1. Clarity ...

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

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2018
... its economic growth doubled to 0.4% in the third quarter from 0.2% in the previous one) and... after months of sanguine Brexit news (so much so, that the BOE was confident enough to lift interest rates in August), a Brexit agreement is now looking further ...

Chief economist update: Tariff man takes Wall Street down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2018
... Bloomberg's " Nine Reasons for the Sell-Off in U.S. Stocks " piece published today. The list also includes geopolitical concerns, Brexit, technical breaches, sell-off in momentum names, softening US housing markets, forced selling, JPMorgan chief ...

Chief economist update: RBA more likely to cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2018
... Eurozone's GDP growth halved to just 0.2% in the September quarter (from 0.4%); and the UK's growth remains uncertain due to Brexit. The indications from the domestic economy haven't changed much from the last meeting. The labour market is ...

Chief economist update: The angel in the capex details

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2018
... in the face of multiplying challenges - trade war, Fed hikes, global slowdown led by China and melting emerging markets, Brexit, wobbly share markets and on the domestic front, record high household debt levels, stagnant wages growth, declining property ...

Chief economist update: Wall Street in drunken sailor's shadow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2018
... today's fall could both be explained. In the current context, market up because US-China trade war shows signs of easing, Brexit negotiations smooth, Fed to ease up on hikes, employment up, spending up, company earnings holding up...or any other ...

Chief economist update: Thanks for nothing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2018
... minus column alongside its brothers, in time for Thanksgiving. This is because it's raining... problems - trade war, Brexit, Italian budget, de-synchronised global growth, geo-political concerns, free-falling emerging markets, etcetera, etcetera ...

Chief economist update: Finding neutral

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2018
... commentate on the day-to-day action on Wall Street these days. Wall Street down... it's because of the US-China trade war, Brexit, Italy, overvaluation, peak earnings, Fed policy mistake. Wash, rinse, repeat at the next down day. Wall Street up... ...