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Chief economist: Thank you, Putin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2022
... proceeded to record new all-time highs. This, despite "hiccups" brought on by the Asian financial crisis of 1997/98; the dotcom bust in 2000; the global financial crisis in 2008/09; and, the European sovereign debt crisis of 2010/13. Threats and sanctions ...

Chief economist update: Amber alert

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2021
... 500 P/E ratio would hit the peak overvaluation of 23.4 times recorded on the 1st of September 2000 in the midst of the dotcom bubble. We all know what happened thereafter. It could be that this time is different. But there's also Murphy's Law. ...

VanEck makes case for equal weight investing

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2020
... research paper The road to recovery, VanEck examines three separate periods of recovery - the period following the 2001 dotcom burst, the 2008 GFC and the 2015-16 Greek debt crisis. "The paper finds that during these recovery periods, equal weighting ...

Chief economist update: A question of when?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2019
Could it be? Could it be that Dallas Fred President Robert Kaplan has been reading my daily rants? That would be too presumptuous of moi but Factset's report that "Dallas Fed President Kaplan (nonvoter) told the WSJ the recent yield-curve inversion ...

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

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2018
... time gets closer. Australia's been through even tougher challenges before - the Asian currency crisis in 1997, the dotcom crash in 2000, the US recession in 2001, the global financial crisis in 2008, to name a few. The economy continued to grow as ...

Getting better and betterer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JAN 2018
... average of profits, is 32.4; it has been higher only in September 1929 (just before the Wall Street crash) and during the dotcom bubble." But if investors are hearing these alarm bells, they don't appear to be listening. The VIX index - the fear gauge ...

Fearless forecasting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAY 2017
... It's now 2017 and the Dow still has about 15,000 points to climb to get there. Who knows what would have happened if the dotcom bubble didn't intervene, or September 11, or the Global Financial Crisis? But that's just it, economies don't operate in a ...

Westpac deputy chief executive retires

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAR 2017
... challenging career since I joined more than 20 years ago. Over that time, we have handled the disruption from Y2K, the DotCom era, 9/11 and the Global Financial Crisis." "We have transformed the company via the acquisitions of BT and St. George and dramatically ...

Valuation dispersion creating opportunity for instos to retilt

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 27 SEP 2016
... dispersion in valuations between the cheapest and the most expensive stocks is the widest it has been at any point since the dotcom boom, according to the founder of global asset manager Pzena Investment Management. The most expensive quintile of US ...

Mastering the art of ignoring crises

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2016
... crises - as labelled by the media - between 1970 and 2011 including large events like the oil crisis and the bursting of the dotcom bubble to smaller ones including the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Latin American debt crises. "You ...
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