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100 days of Trump (and counting)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 MAY 2017
... explained by stronger profitability and one that would certainly underpin further gains in employment. Add the promised tax cuts to this. What's more, the disappointing growth numbers came because government spending dropped by 1.7% over the first quarter ...

Too much ado about Fed reinvesting nothing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 APR 2017
... policy, a natural policy response to an economy that no longer requires a crutch and might even do a high jump (if Trump's tax cuts and other fiscal spending policies are enacted). It looks deym good from where I sit. Even better, lost in the gloomy ...

Confident with a capital C

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAR 2017
... 8.1%. Underwriting this booming confidence is, of course, US President Trump's promised reflationary policies - mainly tax cuts and fiscal spending on infrastructure (and the Wall?) -- and the US Federal Reserve's 'go slow' approach towards policy normalisation. ...

Global healing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAR 2017
... fact remains that the US economy have been improving sans the promised fiscal stimulus, sans the restructuring, sans the tax cuts, being implemented. It's been goose by optimism over Trump's reflationary agenda but it's also running on its growth momentum. ...

First of three (or more) coming next week

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2017
... details of his reflationary policies. POTUS didn't but the market still went up with investors still buying his promises of tax cuts and infrastructure spending. This early in his presidency, there's no reason to doubt that Trump walks his talk. Latest ...

Trump's tweets and deeds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2017
... one suggests that all the things Trump said he would do, Trump would do. Both the good- corporate and personal income tax cuts, infrastructure spending, deregulation - and bad - border tax, immigration and trade protectionism. I have no beef with Trump ...

One week delivery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2017
... made, you better deliver. Unless they don't cut muster with the US Congress and the Senate, expect Trump to deliver on tax cuts - company and personal - infrastructure spending, restructuring, that "Mexican wall" and trade protectionism. The immediate ...

Will the real Trump please stand up

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2017
... date, the incoming president has been ambivalent on the details of three factors that will move markets: his proposed tax cuts, his policy specifics on infrastructure and, closer to home, what happens next if the US withdraws from the Trans-Pacific Partnership? ...

Investors must look further than US: J.P. Morgan

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JAN 2017
... great again' he has publicly advocated for increased infrastructure spending, a reduction in corporate regulation, and tax cuts to boost economic growth. Craig predicts this will lead to overall economic momentum over the next few years. However, Trump's ...

MYEFO: Surplus of promises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 DEC 2016
... look at the goodwill and raised growth expectations engendered by President-elect Trump's promised fiscal largesse - tax cuts and infrastructure building and rebuilding - on the US economy...one that also gave the Fed the green light to proceed with ...