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Chief economist update: Euro contagion redux?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2019
"Growth rates for many of the euro area economies have been marked up, especially for Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands, reflecting the stronger momentum in domestic demand and higher external demand. Growth in Spain, which has been well above potential ...

Chief economist update: La vita is no longer e bella

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2019
"When the moon hits your eye, like a big pizza pie, 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! ...

UniSuper awards fixed income mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019
... semi-government, agencies and supra-nationals in the core G7 defined countries − Canada, US (North America), France, Germany, Italy (Europe ex-UK Core), UK and Japan, as well as satellite countries. About two years ago, it signed a five-year lease ...

Chief economist update: ECB bids farewell to QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2018
... respectively). That's still cool. But if the slowdown in the region's three biggest economies persists - Germany and Italy are just a quarter away from a technical recession and France's year-on-year GDP growth have trended lower from 2.8% ...

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 ...

Chief economist update: Is TLTRO III coming?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2018
... quarters of 2018 and by just 0.2% in the third - led by a 0.2% contraction in Germany (its biggest economy) and nil growth in Italy (its third biggest). The year-on-year growth rate in Eurozone GDP growth more clearly pictures the extent of the slowdown. ...

Chief economist update: Finding neutral

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2018
... 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... easing trade ...

Chief economist update: Slowing in sync

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... that's sending emerging markets (currencies and equity markets) in a tailspin - there's the tussle between Brussels and Italy and its proposed budget deficit and the general slowing in Eurozone economic activity, there's Brexit, and of course ...

Chief economist update: Cheaper oil greases wheels of growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2018
... 4 October. The slide came after Trump decided to be "magnanimous" in exempting eight countries -- China, India, Greece, Italy, Taiwan, Japan, Turkey and South Korea - from buying Iranian oil. OPEC and non-OPEC oil producers pumping oil plus Iranian supply... ...

Chief economist update: Oil slick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2018
... Ergo, lesser demand for oil. As per supply, Trump's recent decision exempting eight countries - China, India, Greece, Italy, Taiwan, Japan, Turkey and South Korea - from buying Iranian oil means that Iran's oil production would continue to add ...