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Chief economist update: Cloudy 2020 vision for OECD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2019
Scratch that and lower it to 2.9%. In its 'Interim Economic Outlook' report published on September 19, the OECD lowered its world economic growth forecast from 3.6% in 2018 to 2.9% (down from 3.2% forecast in May 2019) this year and 3.0% (down ...

Chief economist update: Santa Claus is coming to town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2019
... because I got up on the right side of the bed this morning and/or the sun is shining after several cold, wet, windy or cloudy days. But the rise and rise of the US equity market - the S&P 500 index, the DJIA, and the Nasdaq composite index all closed ...

Cloudy skies in the land of the rising sun

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2017
With the prices of Australia's major commodity exports - coal and iron ore -- trending lower this year, let's all spend a minute silence and pray that yesterday's report of a massive slump in exports - down 8.0% in the month of April - was indeed an ...

The twenty-first night of September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2016
"Do you remember twenty-first night of September? Before you go cold like December And all you saw were cloudy days..." - September Gospel musician Kirk Franklin's reprisal of 'Earth, Wind & Fire's' classic September could become a hit come the "twenty-first ...

British Airways to clash in court with pension trustee

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
... increases in payments to the airline's retired workers. At the heart of the case, which will be heard next February, is the cloudy relationship between the trustee and the entity holding the risk. While there are few defined benefit funds left in Australia ...

Super Mario delivers huge stimulus package

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015
"I've got sunshine on a cloudy day... I guess you'd say What can make me feel this way?" Mario, Mario, Mario Talkin' 'bout Q-E Q-E. Yes Virginia, he did it. Super Mario brought sunshine to the financial markets on this, a cold and cloudy Frankfurt day. ...

A tall tale of a good story

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
... record high breaking finish. But even if you believe the headlines (and take away the weather), the data doesn't really say cloudy with chance of rain. Weaker housing? Perhaps. The Case-Shiller's 20-city home price index rose by 0.8% in December after ...

Now for a taper in December

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2013

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 DEC 2011
... measures agreed to last week. "Yesterday's optimism was like one single ray of sunshine squeezing through an otherwise cloudy sky," Commsec market analyst Steven Daghlian said. At 1200 AEDT the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 59.1 points, or 1.4 ...

Crystal ball gets cloudy in wait for CPI figures

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2007
Inflation figures out tomorrow will be a telling predictor into the RBA's decision on domestic interest rates next week. Many economists are already tipping that, with further deterioration in import prices set to push down headline inflation over months ...
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