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Chief economist update: Same challenges, differing reactions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2019
... before it's lifted to 2% in March 2021. Just like its Australian counterpart, the slowdown in global growth and trade war concerns has negatively impacted New Zealand's economy. Just like Australia, New Zealand's labour market remains strong. ...

Chief economist update: The tweet that reignited the trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2019
... his unpredictability. With just two tweets, POTUS reignited hostilities (and perhaps an escalation) of the US-China trade war, spooking financial markets which - since the beginning of the year and up to the minute before the tweet - expected a deal ...

Chief economist update: S&P raises Duterte ratings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2019
Money talks, prayers walk. This appears to be the overriding theme in the upcoming May 13 mid-term elections in the Philippines where "foul-mouthed and murderous" president Rodrigo Duterte's preferred senatorial and congressional candidates lead ...

Chief economist update: EUr next

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2019
... many years. It will soon stop!" Make no mistake, this is not an empty threat. Trump will follow through. The Sino-US trade war escalated the same way - via Twitter - when on 18 September 2018, Trump tweeted. "China has been taking advantage of the United ...

Chief economist update: What's the RBA waiting for?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2019
The Sino-Yankee trade war, the slowdown in the global economy and more recently, the Brexit fiasco have all had a negative bearing on the Australian economic outlook. This is no better depicted than by the recent National Accounts update showing the ...

Chief economist update: Trump tweets bull market back into China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2019
... currently trading at around CNY6.6891 per US$1. The financial markets' reaction validates Trump's victory on the trade war with China. Trump 1, China 0. Then again, maybe not. For if Trump's just-announced ceasefire turns into a longer-lasting ...

Chief economist update: Nerves of steel

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2019
... this year - I only recommended for the RBA to cut only one (ehem, ehem) - but recent news that China's starting a trade war with Australia - it's "banned imports of Australian coal and will cap overall coal imports for 2019 at 12M tonne" (Factset) ...

AUM growth subdued to 2025: Bloomberg

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2019
New research from Bloomberg suggests fee margins of global asset managers will drop 11% over the next six years. Most of the 1950 global asset managers surveyed in the Asset Management Outlook to 2025 provided conservative AUM growth forecasts over ...

Chief economist update: Trump trumps Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2019
... global growth and 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 ...

Chief economist update: Policy normalisation interrupted

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2019
... IMF, countenanced that Trump would follow through on his campaign pledge to "Make America Great Again" by starting a trade war with the world in late March 2018. The impact of which is clearly shown in the IMF's forecast table which showed a sharp ...