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Chief economist update: Australia burns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JAN 2020
... agreement on January 15 and Brexit has become less uncertain - marred by renewed war (the real war) tensions between the US and Iran. A US airstrike in Iraq on January 4 killed Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran's elite Quds military force and one ...

Chief economist update: Plenty of oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2019
... concern of a risk of war in the Middle East. While Yemen's Houthi rebels claimed it was them, the US points its finger on Iran with president Trump tweeting the day after that the US is "locked and loaded depending on verification..." The slowing ...

Chief economist update: Will Australia avoid another global recession?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2019
... central banks are running low on bullets. There's Trump's war (trade or otherwise) with everybody - China, Mexico, Iran, the EU, climate change, etc. The debilitating effect of which has now prompted Japan and South Korea to engage in a trade ...

Chief economist update: Surveys back All Ords climb

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2019
... slowdown in global economic activity, the lingering trade war and now, geopolitical concerns (prompted by the developing US-Iran stoush), the Australian equity market keeps on climbing. This year-to-date, the All Ordinaries index has rallied by 19.7% ...

Chief economist update: Oil market slides from bull to bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2019
... over the global growth outlook and therefore, oil demand. Taken alongside, supply disruptions/sanctions in Venezuela, Libya, Iran and others, plus the implementation of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Russia and other oil ...

Chief economist update: The bad oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019
... have caused Venezuelan oil production to fall by almost 500K bpd in March from February. Add to this, US sanctions against Iran (expected to be tightened further in May) and the supply disruption caused by the tensions in Libya. But as the International ...

Chief economist update: Trump trumps Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2019
... support developed country central banks to go ahead and normalise theirs and then... boom. Tariffs, trade war, reversal on Iran deal, death of NAFTA (now known as USMCA - United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement), his ditching of APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic ...

Chief economist update: Cheaper oil greases wheels of growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2018
... OPEC and non-OPEC nations meeting in Algiers on 23 September. Not after US president Donald Trump re-imposed sanctions on Iran as well as threatened that the US would also sanction countries importing oil from Iran. But as the saying goes, what goes ...

Chief economist update: Oil slick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2018
... black gold's price received another boost in the middle of this year after US President Trump re-imposed sanctions on Iran as well as threatening that the US would also sanction countries importing oil from Iran. This sent prices even higher - Brent ...

OPEC is not to blame

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2018
... non-OPEC oil producers) to blame, Trump also had a hand in sending the price of oil higher when he reimposed sanctions on Iran in August this year (followed up by threats of sanctions on countries importing Iranian oil). In its Oil Market Report for ...