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Chief economist update: Don't buy a Big Mac in America

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2019
The Bloomberg US Dollar Spot index was trading at 96.7680 on the day Trump tweeted the below: "China and Europe playing big currency manipulation game and pumping money into their system in order to compete with USA. We should MATCH, or continue being ...

Chief economist update: The turn in Australia's cycle from vicious to virtuous

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2019
... America) and lingering uncertainties - wars (trade, currencies, tech, nuclear), the still unresolved issue of Brexit and Trump, among others. The domestic economy is none too good either - so much so the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has had to deliver ...

Chief economist update: Currency manipulators beware

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2019
... they have for many years!" - 7:21 am - 3 Jul 2019 This is the latest tweet from @realDonaldTrump aka US President Donald J. Trump. POTUS is really upping up the ante in his war with the rest of the world in his quest to make "America Great Again" and ...

Chief economist update: BOJ Tankan tanking?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2019
... would have noticed. The world's attention was all about the US-China trade deal or no deal tete-a-tete. The news of Trump and Xi's face-to-face has so far been good - with both leaders agreeing to re-start trade negotiations. The meeting has ...

Chief economist update: Iron ore on the up and up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2019
... biggest oil importer (China, which buys more than 65% of total imports) to thank for this, and perhaps US President Donald Trump and his war on trade with Beijing. There's no denying Washington's increased tariffs on imports from China has had ...

Chief economist update: Thrilla in Osaka

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2019
... But at the end of the day, those hopin' and wishin' and prayin' that the tariffs would just go away and watch Trump and Xi kiss and make up are sure to be disappointed. The uncertainty over an escalation/de-escalation of the war on trade ...

Chief economist update: Fed plans for Trump contingency

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2019
... makes sense given the recent positive US-China trade rhetoric. Then again, it could be that the Fed has gotten to understand Trump well enough and is thus, insuring against another Trump tweet that could once again, escalate trade tensions. An escalation ...

Chief economist update: Cash is King

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2019
... Fed's pause, forward-guided in the first quarter of this year, would have just been what the doctor ordered. But Tariff Trump got in the way, reigniting the war on trade. Conspiracy theorists would imagine this was a deliberate ploy to prove Trump's ...

Chief economist update: Australian bull market here we come

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2019
Just a weetle more, a weetle more... a little more push higher and sooner than soon, the All Ordinaries index would satisfy the technical definition of a bull market - a 20% rally from its nearest low - and onwards towards topping its record high of ...

Chief economist update: BOE going the wrong way?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2019
... Trump's tweet "indefinitely" suspending his tariff threat against America's southern neighbour. But POTUS being Trump, he's exploited this "win" to issue fresh tariff threats versus Beijing (and indirectly to all other countries that trades ...