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Now showing: Trump and Kim

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2018
... between the leader of the free world and the North Korean supremo. It's going to be a "win-win" deal according to US President Donald Trump. In all likelihood, North Korean President Kim Jung-on is saying the same thing in Korean. Trump would be ...

Japan needs trade peace with the US

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2018
... on headlines in recent times. It's back again when Prime Minister Shinzo Abe went to Washington to meet with the US president about North Korea and trade. Early reports were encouraging with Trump announcing at their joint press conference that, "We're ...

Chief economist update: Capex and credit and the trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2018
... when the threatening clouds of Quitaly and its negative repercussions on the whole of the Eurozone has dissipated, US President Donald Trump's trade protectionist policy in the name of American national security comes back to haunt. Not that it left ...

Chief economist update: "Quitaly"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2018
... come back to town...and it could be bigger. While the financial market world still haven't seen the end game of US President Donald Trump's protectionist trade policies and diplomatic ones (an oxymoron?), along comes Europe adding to the uncertainty ...

Chief economist update: Should have sold in May and gone away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2018
... shenanigans is good - the local economy is not immune to international developments. There's the uncertainty over US President Trump's protectionist policies. While Australia has reportedly been able to secure an in-principle agreement with the ...

Chief economist update: All Ords rising

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2018
... 3 April 2018. That was the time everybody and his dog were fretting over a global trade war that was prompted by US President Donald Trump's announcement of 25% tariff on steel imports and 10% on aluminium. This has led to tit-for-tat threats with ...

Chief economist update: When good oil goes bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2018
... expected 2.2 million barrels in the latest week, the upward momentum in crude oil prices remains. Recent reports that US President Donald Trump would reimpose sanctions against Iran after 180 days (unless a "deal" is agreed upon) would only put a rocket ...

Chief economist update: A$ falls to the occasion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2018
... Australian dollar can do for your country." That's me bastardising John F. Kennedy's inaugural address as the 35th US President back in 1961 (before I was born if I may add). For sure and for certain, Australia - the country - can do many a thing to ...

Chief economist update: Can't get enough of war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2018
War: it seems that US president Donald Trump cannot get enough of it. Trump began his war crusade with the media (and fake news), then moved on to North Korea (although this was instigated by Kim's nuclear "exercises"), then trade and China, last weekend ...

Chief economist update: Let's talk about oil baby

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2018
... of War) advice: "The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting." This seemed to have worked with US President Trump tweeting that "We'll make great progress together!" and is "very thankful" of the Chinese president's statement. So far ...