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Global healing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAR 2017
... can discuss the why's and why not's for each and every Trump-promised policy's approval but the fact remains that the US economy have been improving sans the promised fiscal stimulus, sans the restructuring, sans the tax cuts, being implemented. It's ...

Obamacare one, Trump nil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 MAR 2017
... negotiate a deal to repeal Obamacare. While it's a slap on the face for the US president, it shouldn't matter much for the US economy or for the markets - both have been improving over the oh so many years that Obamacare had been in existence. The problem ...

No other way but up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 MAR 2017
... incoming data". The optimism sparked by Trump's reflationary policies and generally better global growth suggest that the US economy would see continued upward momentum and hence further Fed rate hikes. But continued growth and higher interest rates ...

Trump matters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2017
... ignore the man, we cannot. Not while he runs the biggest economy with the biggest capital market in the world. The US economy account for 25% of the world economy (US$18.6 trillion of US$75.2 trillion); the US equity market 38% (US$26 trillion of US$69 ...

One week delivery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2017
... immediate implication would be reflation - growth will inflate and so will consumer prices. More so, given that the US economy is nearing or now at full employment. This means that the three interest rate hikes expected from the Fed this year could become ...

Every American's turning optimist

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 JAN 2017
... despite easing by 0.3 points to 56.0 in January, US consumers remained optimistic about "six-month outlook" for the US economy. The personal financial outlook index increased by 2.5 points to 62.3 in January while and the index of confidence in federal ...

Investors must look further than US: J.P. Morgan

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JAN 2017
... particular emerging market equities, and Eurozone equities. One of the biggest unknowns for investors' in 2017 is how the US economy will shape up under the direction of the incoming administration. While US President-elect Trump's policy agenda is still ...

US at full employment

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 JAN 2017
... (minus 3.3) when only 24K were added to non-farm payrolls during that month - puts into question the notion that the US economy has reached full employment. This followed last week's report that total US employment grew by a less than expected 156K in ...

MYEFO: Surplus of promises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 DEC 2016
... by President-elect Trump's promised fiscal largesse - tax cuts and infrastructure building and rebuilding - on the US economy...one that also gave the Fed the green light to proceed with normalisation. What about the credit-rating agencies? Yes, them ...

The year that was and the year that will be

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 DEC 2016
... alert to as 2016 becomes 2017: The US Federal Reserve and President Donald Trump At this point in time and given the US economy's momentum and Trump's reflationary policy, it's looking likely that the Fed would be able to push through its forecast three ...