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Chief economist update: Easing does it (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
... was first detected late last year." South Korea's Early Coronavirus Wins Dim After Rash of New Cases (Wall Street Journal) "SEOUL -- South Korea, which largely succeeded in quelling the initial spread of the coronavirus, is back on the defensive ...

Chief economist update: Fed has Trump's trade war number

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2019
... research puts numbers in Financial Standard 's claim that it's Trump's tariff war, stupid and the Wall Street Journal 's piece, Cut the Trump Uncertainty Tax... His best stimulus policy would be to end his tariff campaign.

Chief economist update: Jerome is in the Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2019
US Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell's in the Hole - the annual Jackson Hole symposium, that is. Out of or deeper into the (Jackson) hole? Powell's all too aware that he has to mind his Ps and Qs because his every word would be sliced ...

Charles Schwab reverses out of Australia again

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 19 AUG 2019
... sluggish progress in meeting its financial goals, with pre tax charges totaling US $35 million, according to Wall Street Journal. At the time, TD Waterhouse Investor Services was reported as having agreed to buy Charles Schwab Australia's 51,000 ...

Chief economist update: Will Australia avoid another global recession?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2019
A recession is coming! Worries over a global recession are everywhere! Financial market investors are seeking safety - exiting equity markets and queuing to purchase longer-term bonds (despite their low, and in some, negative yields); the US dollar ...

Chief economist update: The art of the deal in action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2018
... actual implementations, threats, some concessions and now it's good cop bad cop. Bad cop Trump told the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) that it's "highly unlikely" he would agree to China's plea for him to refrain from lifting the current 10% tariff ...

Chief economist update: The angel in the details

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2018
... contributed to September quarter growth. This, even before Trump's tax cuts became law. And the future? The Wall Street Journal's article headlined "The Tax Law, Just One Month Old, Is Roaring Through U.S. Companies" says it all. According to WSJ, "the ...

Goldman Sachs launches junk bond ETF

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAR 2017
... to possibly list five passively hedge fund-type ETFs and six actively managed ETFs. In October last year, Wall Street Journal reported that junk bond trader at Goldman Sachs, Tom Malafronte, earned more than $US100 million in trading profits for the ...

The twenty-first night of September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2016
... Governor Haruhiko Kuroda insists that there is still room for interest rates to go even more negative, the 'Wall Street Journal' reports that Kuroda is seeing the negative side of cutting negative interest rates deeper into the negative. "The BOJ governor ...

US mulls borrowing limit on leveraged ETFs

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2016
... the instrument. Some investors were geared three to four times their original investment. According to the Wall Street Journal, an SEC proposed rule could treat leveraged ETFs like mutual funds, which could impact the way some investors, particularly ...