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Xero founder sells $94.5m in shares to fund philanthropy

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 17 NOV 2017
... who became Facebook's first outside investor in 2004, broke rank with the majority of Silicon Valley by supporting Donald Trump during the 2016 US Presidential election. Thiel was later appointed to then President-elect Trump's transition team.

Changed RBA rate expectations?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2017
... central bank chiefs and their henchmen months, weeks and days before. So too was the well-telegraphed US President Donald Trump's nomination of Jerome Powell. If (when?) approved by the US Senate Powell will replace sitting Fed Chair Janet Yellen on ...

Enter the dragon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2017
... Politburo says jump and economic agents ask how high, ensuring that if managed properly, the answer would be, higher than Donald Trump's country.

Trump-flation returns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2017
Love him or loathe him, Donald Trump remains the stuff of headlines going into and since he won the 8 November 2016 US presidential election. Reports abound about Trump versus Kim, Trump versus NATO, Trump versus the NFL, Trump versus Alec Baldwin and ...

Markets are stronger than Trump

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2017
... Coast, Hobson said it's dangerous to attempt to orient one's investment decisions around political ephemera - citing Donald Trump and North Korean hostilities as examples. "Your ultimate question should be around what's going on with individual companies," ...

Republican Party-themed ETF launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 1 SEP 2017
... Responsible Investing' products. It will list under ticker code 'MAGA', which incidentally is an acronym for President Donald Trump's slogan 'make America great again' used during his 2016 presidential campaign. (The Republican Party is commonly referred ...

The Trump risk on global trade

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUL 2017
... in February 2012 - the BDI climbed to 859 overnight. The one major risk to the continued improvement in trade is Donald Trump and his "America First" policy. One that Trump reminded the world once more last night when he revealed his thoughts on steel ...

Reflation narrative lacks substance: MFS

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUN 2017
... pre-Trump, was a Chinese-driven reflation," he said. Adams also argued that the growth "spike" that occurred following Donald Trump's election was more "narrative than fact." He added: "There have been very few actual changes in macros. Growth is better ...

Investors to benefit from $4tn US infrastructure bill

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUN 2017
... worldwide, according to BNY Mellon research. The 2017 BNY Mellon Investment Management Alternatives Outlook noted Donald Trump's pledge US$1 trillion to a US infrastructure overhaul has driven up investment appetite for the asset class. "In the alternative ...

Super funds condemn Trump climate withdrawal

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2017
... Superannuation Investors (ACSI), representing $1.5 trillion in funds under management, has condemned US President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the country from the Paris Agreement on climate change. Trump justified the withdrawal saying his administration ...