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Water, water everywhere but nothing to drink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 JAN 2022
... one's just begun. Although still not proved beyond the shadow of a doubt, since the first bat flapped its covid wings in Wuhan (China), it has gone through several mutations - most notably, Alpha, Delta and now Omicron - each bringing fresh challenges ...

Chief economist: The path to normality

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2021
... path towards normality, possibly until August at the latest which, coincidentally is marked by the post-pandemic pool party Wuhan Maya Beach Water Park that went viral on 17 August 2020. However, the PBOC is not taking any chances. It has kept its benchmark ...

Chief economist update: The do-nothing Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021
... in its December 19, 2019 dot plot - before China alerted the World Health Organisation (WHO) of coronavirus infections in Wuhan (on 31 December) - shows the Fed's median forecasts for the fed funds rate to remain steady at 1.75% in 2020 before rising ...

Chief economist update: The virus, the vaccine, the variant

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2021
... About this time last year, the world was alerted - but only mildly alarmed - at yet another SARS-like disease spreading in Wuhan, China (the first confirmed case reported on December 8). The world considered the infections as a China-only epidemic and ...

Fund managers' ESG beef

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2020
... risk factor. The mainstream theory on the origin of COVID-19 is that it was spread via a wet market in the Chinese city of Wuhan originally. FAIRR found that 73% of the companies on the index were graded as high risk on the 'pandemic criteria' - this ...

Chief economist update: Get shorty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020
... second - through social restrictions and lockdowns, China has re-opened for business months before, underscored by the "Wuhan pool party" back in August. This was followed by the China's "Golden Week" holiday (1-7 October) that, according to the ...

Chief economist update: Pandemic, what pandemic?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2020
... and a whopping 58.3% surge from this year's low of US$78.33/metric tonne it plumbed in early February, after China put Wuhan in lockdown. Being the biggest iron ore consumer (69.1% of total world iron imports), what happens to China dictates the ...

Chief economist update: China's post-pandemic economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2020
... measures, the virus won't be fended off. We fought hard, this is our payback." Zhang Yong, a small taxi company owner in Wuhan, is proud for China has proved that the coronavirus could be conquered. So much so that its death sparked a post-pandemic ...

Chief economist update: Communists' party

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2020
... times and your laughter too We gonna celebrate your party with you..." - Kool & the Gang The post-pandemic pool party at Wuhan Maya Beach Water Park that went viral on August 17 garnered negative - "a slap in the face to the rest of the world" - and ...

Chief economist update: No Karens in China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
... enforcement of quarantine and isolation measures - under penalty of imprisonment or fine or both - worked in the first wave in Wuhan and in the second wave in Beijing, where the outbreaks were brought under control in just about two weeks. As early as ...
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