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Millionaires worry about retirement

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2022
... millionaires believe it will take a miracle to retire securely. Natixis Investment Managers released The Million Dollar Question report which evaluates retirement sentiment among high-net-worth (HNWI) investors. It found millionaires and everyday investors ...

Chief economist update: Be afraid of inflation expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAY 2021
... take into account the rate of overall inflation they expect to prevail in the future," she said. The 64 million dollar question now becomes, what would the Fed do to ease inflation expectations?

Chief economist update: Will Australia avoid another global recession?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2019
... 7.6% from 9.8%; and, year-on-year growth in fixed asset investment decelerated to 5.7% from 5.8%. The 64 million dollar question is, would Australia's luck hold out or would it luck out? For sure, the "Lucky Country" would make it to its 28th year ...

Chief economist update: Equity market rally has legs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2019
... Similarly, the MSCI emerging market index is up 9.1%, reversing the 7.5% loss recorded in 2018. The sixty-four million dollar question is does the equity rally have legs? Will global equities continue to march higher through to end-2019? In a way, I've ...

Chief economist update: A question of when?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2019
... from just 0.1% a month ago; 14.4% in September from 0.3%; 24.6% in December from 0.8%. The sixty-four million dollar question is when? The lesson from history is that soon... very, very soon. The Fed announced its last interest rate hike in February ...

Jobs galore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2017
... difficult to find suitable workers than at any time since the global financial crisis in 2008." The $64 million dollar question is whether the tightening Australian labour market translates into a pick-up in wages growth - recorded at a record low 1.9% ...

A question of trend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
... could do with even just one more to bring its growth rate above-trend. And this is precisely the sixty million dollar question, is it? Gov Glenn is beginning to have some doubts. "Perhaps trend output growth is lower than the 3 per cent or 3A1/4 per ...

Bond bears out of hibernation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
... for Aussie tenners could also turn negative should the bond market sell-off continue. And that's the 64 million dollar question? Would it? The ayes have it. It's the unwinding of the "euro carry trade", it's Grexit, it's the Fed lift-off. The overriding ...

Un-taper re-reflate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
... the FOMC meets in a forthnight's time, the Fed might initiate Plan B - un-taper and re-reflate. The 64 million dollar question is would it work on the markets again this time as QE3 did after QE2... and as QE2 did after QE1. Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps. ...

Growth and consequence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2014
... (from 3% to 5%), you, I and Irene and the BOJ know that there would be payback. Just how much is the 64 million dollar question but market expectations centre around a 3.3% annualised contraction in the second quarter. Some say less, others say more. ...
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