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Chief economist update: Americans who want work will find it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2018
Whether by luck or design, the booming US economy would have been US president Donald Trump's major legacy to the world - with America supercharging growth globally.

Chief economist update: BOE waiting on Brexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2018
Bank of England Governor Mark Carney could be forgiven for "waiting" this time because Brexit is nigh.

Chief economist update: Australia's low(er)-flation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2018
Will the next move in the official cash rate, as Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Philip Lowe put it, likely "be up, rather than down"?

Chief economist update: Eurozone growth slowing fast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2018
Advance estimates show that the single currency region's GDP grew by a mere 0.2% in the September quarter - half the previous two quarters 0.4% rate, half market expectations for a 0.4% expansion and the weakest quarterly growth rate since the June 2014 ...

Chief economist update: BOJ on a steady

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2018
The Bank of Japan starts its two-day monetary policy meeting today and it's not about to give financial markets a Halloween spook.

Super-size me: Latest employment trends

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
Wealth management recruiters and their prospective job candidates are beneficiaries of businesses looking to "super-size" roles in digital and customer engagement positions.

Chief economist update: Shopaholics drive US growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
The inflation measures embedded in the US National Accounts would surely give President Donald Trump more ammunition on his verbal attack on the US Federal Reserve.

Chief economist update: Super Mario keeps his cool

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
According to the European Central Bank president its mandate is towards price stability, not towards financing governments' deficits.

Chief economist update: Fear and loathing on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2018
Persistent sell orders have put Wall Street's major benchmark indices either in a correction or on the cusp of one.

Chief economist update: The winter of Australia's discontent

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018
Rabobank predicts the country's national harvest would drop by 23% in the 2018/19 crop season to a mere 29.3 million tonnes compared with the previous year's tally.