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Chief economist update: Get shorty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020
... fiscal balances. This isn't lost on investors. China's relatively stronger growth has pushed the Shanghai Composite index up by 10.1% this year to date - outperforming the S&P 500 (9.4%); the Nikkei-225 (-0.4%); the Stoxx-50 (-11.9%); the FTSE-100 ...

Chief economist update: Second waving, not drowning

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
... also given central command freedom to turn its attention on re-growing the economy. Not only that, the Shanghai Composite index rallied by 5.7% after Reuters recent report quoting the state media mouthpiece, the China Securities Journal saying: "In a ...

Chief economist update: Oil gush

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020
... 7.6% on that day; the Stoxx 600 index plunged by 7.1%; the Nikkei-225 index went down by 5.1% and the Shanghai composite index by 3.0%; and, the S&P/ASX 200 index plunged by 7.3% It was also the day when cases of coronavirus infection worldwide stood ...

Chief economist update: What happens in China...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2020
... most major equity markets have lost between a fifth and a third of their value this year-to-date, the Shanghai composite index is down by 10%. It would have been much better were it not for the recent People's Daily, China report that: "39 new cases ...

Chief economist update: China leads the way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2020
... coronavirus game of chicken will eventually play out. At the height of the viral scare in China, the Shanghai composite index was the worst- performing stock market in the world (or at least compared with other major equity markets). But its containment ...

China vaccinates against corona

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2020
... again be extended if things don't get better by then. However, in a seemingly perverse reaction, the Shanghai Composite index has rebounded by 10.7% from the one-year low of 2746.61 points recorded on February 3 (following reports that the COVID-19 ...

Chief economist update: Are capital markets the next Sino-US battleground?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2019
... indexes managed by US firms." As a result, the Chinese yuan fell by 0.4% versus the US dollar and while the Shanghai composite index inched up by 0.1% (it closed before the news), China shares traded on the US exchanges dropped. According to the Financial ...

Chief economist update: Thrilla in Osaka

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2019
... high. But the reaction to the deal or no deal talks is more pronounced in China's equity market. The Shanghai composite index soared to a 14-month high of 3,263.12 points in mid-April (an outstanding 34.4% rally from the start of 2019) on trade deal ...

Chief economist update: Woe to the world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2019
... up 12.8%; the All Ords is up 9.7%; the FTSE-100 is up 7.4%; the Nikkei-225 is up 7.2% and China's Shanghai composite index is up 21.2%. "Bond yields have been falling: US 10-year Treasury bond yield down by 0.09% to 2.59% since the start of 2019 ...

Chief economist update: Be fearful when indicators show no fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2019
... up 12.8%; the All Ords is up 9.7%; the FTSE-100 is up 7.4%; the Nikkei-225 is up 7.2% and China's Shanghai composite index is up 21.2%. This makes perfect sense, especially given bond yields have been falling: US 10-year treasury bond yield down ...
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