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Maple-Brown Abbott hires for new strategy

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 OCT 2021
... largest and fastest growing economies globally. In the past 20 years, emerging markets have risen from a quarter of world GDP to now close to half, while its equity markets are still a fraction of the size of those in the developed world." Moorhead added ...

Chief economist update: Copper 10,000

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2021
... support. In its latest World Economic Outlook (WEO) released in April, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicted world GDP to expand from -- 3.3% last year to 6.0% in 2021 and 4.4% in 2022 -- representing a 0.5 and 0.2 percentage point upgrade ...

Chief economist update: OECD sees stronger growth ahead

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2021
... the race between vaccines and emerging variants of the virus," it reads. This, from an estimated 3.4% contraction in world GDP in 2020. The US stands out in the OECD's projections with growth forecast at 6.5% this year - a sharp upgrade from the ...

Aussie equities stage recovery

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2020
... will drop by 4.9% this year, after an estimated expansion of 2.9% in 2019. The OECD was more pessimistic, forecasting world GDP growth to contract between 6.0% (under a single-hit scenario) and 7.6% (under a double-hit scenario). The report said monetary ...

Chief economist update: The post-pandemic problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
... will drop by 4.9% this year (after an estimated expansion of 2.9% in 2019). The OECD was more pessimistic, forecasting world GDP growth to contract between 6.0% in 2020 (under a single-hit scenario) and 7.3% (under a double-hit scenario). As such, central ...

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

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2020
... 'World Economic Outlook, June 2020' update reinforces the luck of Australians (sorry Ireland). The IMF its 2020 world GDP growth forecast by 1.9 percentage points (from its April 2020 prediction) to 4.9, with the contraction in all G7 economies ...

Chief economist update: Equity market disconnect

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2020
... it'll be smooth sailing from here. In its June 2020 'Global Economic Prospects' report, the World Bank (WB) sees world GDP growth dropping from an estimated +2.4% in 2019 to -5.2% this year (a sharp 7.7 percentage point revision from its ...

Chief economist update: How deep the global recession?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2020
... succession all the way to a global GDP contraction of 1.4% in July 2009. As late as October 2009, the IMF predicted world GDP to decline by 1.1%. As it turned out, world economic growth contracted (based on IMF data) by 0.7% in 2009. The answer to the ...

Chief economist update: Who's afraid of COVID-19?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2020
... growth from 6.0% to 5.6%. You call that a downgrade? Oxford Economics' latest analysis is a downgrade. Oxford sees world GDP growth falling to "nearly zero" in the first half of this year (should the virus infects more of the globe) and to 1.3% for ...

Chief economist update: Cloudy 2020 vision for OECD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2019
... forecast in May 2019) this year and 3.0% (down from 3.4%) in 2020. The Institution's latest report (November) has world GDP growth downgrade another notch to 2.9% by the end of the 2020, warning that: "Growth could be weaker still if downside risks ...
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