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Australia slips in global retirement ranks

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2019
... top 10. The United Kingdom and United States are ranked 17th and 18th in the world respectively. Retirees in the Czech Republic and Israel can expect a better standard of living once they stop work than those in the UK and US. The report shone a special ...

Chief economist update: China's great leap forward 70 years in the making

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019
China's come a long way, baby! 1 October 2019 marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. The Politburo has much to celebrate and boast about. It didn't happen overnight, but it did happen. Chairman Mao ...

Chief economist update: Tweeting Trump versus totalitarian Xi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 AUG 2019
... accountable to the public and the U.S. Congress", not the president of the day. This sharply contrasts with the People's Republic of China, highlighting the advantage of a dictatorial regime (which Trump dreams of) to that of a democratic one in ...

Chief economist update: Thrilla in Osaka

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2019
... game is between the trade talks between the two biggest economies in the world, the United States and the People's Republic of China - suggests participants are hoping for the best rather than preparing for the worst. Face-to-face negotiations are ...

Chief economist update: It'll hurt me more than it hurts you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2019
... all remaining imports from China worth around US$325 billion. As expected, the Ministry of Finance of the People's Republic of China announced (before the opening bell on Wall Street on Monday, the May 13) that it's imposing increased tariffs ...

Chief economist update: A tariff for a tariff

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2019
... the financial markets reacted more to Beijing's tit for his tariff tat. The Ministry of Finance of the People's Republic of China announced (before the opening bell on Wall Street) that it's imposing increased tariffs on a total of 5140 products ...

Chinese investment in Australia down 36%

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2019
... of Sydney Business School looking at a dataset covering investments into Australia made by entities from the People's Republic of China through mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and greenfield projects. The report considered real estate investments ...

Trump will continue to buoy stock markets: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 APR 2019
Robert Mueller's findings that US President Donald Trump did not collude with Russia during the 2016 election campaign is good news for the global share markets, Financial Standard's latest spot poll shows. The majority of readers (68%) agree that ...

Chief economist update: BOJ decision announced and ignored

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2019
I wasn't aware of this, but it appears that Donald J. Trump had been letting his fingers do the talking even before he became POTUS. The "Daily Mail" re-printed the tweet he made back on 30 December 2013: ""No one remembers who came in second" - ...

Local fintech investment soars

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2019
... investment in Refinitiv; and PayPal's acquisition of iZettle for US$2.2 billion. Sydney-based data sharing firm Data Republic raised US$22 million in 2018.