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Chief economist update: The post-pandemic problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
... almost (except for essential services) complete stop, sending the global economy in recession. The IMF predicts that world economic output will drop by 4.9% this year (after an estimated expansion of 2.9% in 2019). The OECD was more pessimistic, forecasting ...

Chief economist update: This rebound is brought to you by the letter V

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2020
... scenario) and minus 11.5% versus minus 9.3% (under a double-hit scenario). Similarly, the IMF's 'World Economic Outlook, June 2020' report has the Eurozone contracting by more (-10.2%) this year relative to advanced economies (-8.0%). But ...

Chief economist update: Still the best and better than all the rest

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2020
... (0.4%); and equals New Zealand (0.03%). The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) recently-released 'World Economic Outlook, June 2020' update reinforces the luck of Australians (sorry Ireland). The IMF its 2020 world GDP growth forecast by ...

Pessimism strikes Australia, US optimistic

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2020
... in Australia, and found that, globally, respondents forecast a loss of 7% for the S&P 500 and a loss of 7.3% for the MSCI World Index at year end. Their 2020 return expectations more closely resemble the modest declines seen in 2018 than in 2008, when ...

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 ...

Chief economist update: Australian Renaissance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2020
... business operations played a great role in reviving business and consumer sentiment....and I think to myself, what a wonderful world. But as the OECD warns: "Prospects for businesses, particularly small firms, are very uncertain. As the immediate support ...

Chief economist update: The second wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2020
... Fed has painted a dark picture of the US economy in 2020 - predicting GDP growth to contract by 6.5% this year - but which world government and central bank isn't? But grim as the Fed's projections may be, this is better than the World Bank's ...

The future is fast arriving: BlackRock

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2020
... government bonds. "They offer higher expected returns just as DM bond yields have hit record low levels, and diversification in a world of increasing US-China de-coupling," it said. It also believes that over the near-term Asian ex-Japan equities were ...

Sentiment weakens as macro threats loom

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... the US election. "There's definitely been a shift in terms of foreign policy in the US and other economies around the world, seen through attitudes towards change, raising national incomes and a focus on domestic policies, rather than international ...

Chief economist update: Border brawl

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... did not close their borders (nothing to lose I guess). Broadly, this spat boils down to what every government around the world is weighing - return to economic normality or risking a second wave of infections and deaths that would again cripple business ...