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Chief economist update: Welcome to the day after tomorrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2020
... G7's reassurance is nice. Then again, aside from "monitoring", reaffirmation of commitment and standing ready, the communique falls short of assertive concrete actions, financial markets hoped the "magnificent seven" would undertake. However, the ...

Chief economist update: Trade war and peace

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2018
... mind. Just look at the events of the past week which started with Trump revoking his endorsement of the agreed upon G7 communique (hours before) at the meeting held in Quebec, Canada. There's a lot in the communique they "agreed" on but Trump - and ...

Now showing: Trump and Kim

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2018
... just recently withdrew the Iran nuclear deal made with Obama and more telling is his change of mind to not endorse the Communique agreed upon over the weekend's G7 Summit in Quebec, Canada (just because he felt insulted by Canadian PM Trudeau's ...

Banks can offer fintech an olive branch

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 1 MAY 2017
... technology which requires customers to disclose online banking log-in and password credentials. An alleged target of the communique was micro-investing application Acorns. It hit back and labelled CBA's behaviour anti-competitive, accusing the bank of ...

A "chilling" moment for the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 FEB 2016
... But you may as well have (missed it, that is) for it was more of the same - promised-filled and action-short. In its communique, the G-20 acknowledged that, "The global recovery continues, but it remains uneven and falls short of our ambition for strong ...

Six point five is PM Li's new like

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2015
... China's already shaking the planet. Perhaps literally as more Chinamen walk the planet soon. Xinhua reports that in a communique following its fifth plenum, central command announced that it is ditching its one-child policy - it'll be two children henceforth. ...

Yuan stable (for now)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
... Though they didn't name names, China was surely on their minds at their meeting in Ankara, Turkey when they released the communique stating: "We reiterate our commitment to move toward more market-determined exchange rate systems and exchange rate flexibility ...

G-20 goes for growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2014
... growth and if not, the 'powers-that-are' are there to ensure that global growth continues. This is exactly what the G-20 communique conveyed to you, I and Irene over the weekend. They acknowledged the risks: "We agree the global economy still faces weaknesses ...

Yakety yak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 FEB 2011
... stabilization of their economies." Heck yeah! "... at the appropriate time" We've heard this so many times from the G-20 -- communique after communiquA(C). How many times have you seen this G-20 announcement? "We reaffirm our commitment to coordinated ...

G-20 gabfest at Gyeongju

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
... then does anyone expect any one big nation to dictate the policy of another one big nation? And so it was! The G20's communique promised to "move towards market-determined exchange rate system", to " refrain from competitive devaluation of currencies" ...
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