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

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2020
... all dead". That, of course, is if COVID-19 endures and permanently wreaks death and/or destruction of economic activity. But nah, like all others before it, a cure will be found and when we look back at the rear view mirror, we'll be kicking our ...

Chief economist update: The BOJ needs to run faster to stay in the running

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2019
... in the novel should have been giving this advice to Bank of Japan (BOJ) governor Haruhiko Kuroda san, instead of Alice. But nah. The BOJ kept monetary policy settings as they were - the policy rate at -0.1%; the target for 10-year JGBs at around zero ...

Chief economist update: Nerves of steel

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2019
Could it be? Could it be that Westpac's chief economist Bill Evans has just gotten one up on me? Nah Virginia, me don't want to "kill Bill", we economists may not see eye to eye but we stick together. More so that Bill's come around to my ...

Expansion everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2017
"They float. They all float!" Nah, not scribbling to spook the bejeesus out of you ala Pennywise the clown of "It" fame. Au contraire, the quote refers to the manufacturing PMI survey releases showing that the world's biggest economies are all - not ...

Lead us not into a recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... down only 0.71% from the previous three-month's average. As it has been "whenever we find ourselves in times of trouble" -- nah, Mother Mary doesn't come speaking words of wisdom, we turn to Gov Glenn singing Queen's "Save me, save me, save me I can't ...

All right

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
... the jobs miss in July was due to the upward revision in employment gains in June, which together with May, increased by 14K. Nah, jobs growth remains lacklustre. It still hasn't gathered enough momentum to take it above the 2.0% year-on-year growth rate ...

September -- morn or mourn?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
... June, underpinned by significant falls in the employment and new export orders components. Expectations were for a 53.7 print. Nah, Virginia. Financial markets want a September lift-off today, so that's what they see, heard and think... today. Tomorrow ...

Watching out for the Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
... rallied even harder while we when the first look at America's second quarter economy was released... for it was good. But nah, the Dow and the S&P 500 index ended basically flat - minus 0.03% and plus 0.003%, respectively. Sure, the headline number showing ...

Round and round we go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
... Little headline, "China hurtles towards its own version of the 1929 stock market crash... and Great Depression" (AFR) But nah, China has to slow. It has to or the doom and gloom predicted for this land girt by sea would just be that, "doom and gloom" ...

Australia sings hallelujah

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
Australians all let us rejoice... Nah, not because "wild card" Guy Sebastian made numero cinco at the weekend's Eurovision finals - well... if you put money that he'll make Top 10 then go ahead and show us those pearly whites. Let's rejoice for what ...
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