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Chief economist update: Oil gush

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020
... discounts to its oil customers instead. The drop in oil prices should be a balm for global economic activity reeling from coronaphobia. Cheaper oil prices raises household disposable income and lowers costs of running factories and businesses. Ironically ...

Chief economist update: The corona crash of 2020

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020
... Pick a stock market, any stock market and chances are it's now in a bear market or heading there, struck down by coronaphobia. Yes Virginia, the bears came out of hibernation in full force. There was no place to hide. Everywhere you look, there's ...

Chief economist update: Budget surplus or bust

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2020
... due to weaker trading conditions and profitability....and this was before the coronavirus turned into a worldwide coronaphobia. The extent of coronaphobia could be discern from the Westpac/Melbourne Institute's latest survey of consumer confidence ...

Chief economist update: The crash we have to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
... investors to go look where their capital could get higher returns? The global freezing (of economic activity) wrought by coronaphobia is shaking what has become an orthodoxy since the Global Financial Crisis that central banks are the new masters of ...

Chief economist update: Coronaphobia sickens Japan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2020
Coronaphobia - the "irrational fear" of getting infected with the coronavirus. Numerous medical experts have offered calming and logical prognoses for the epidemic but these two words - irrational and fear - would be, in a manner of speaking, the death ...
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