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Trump and Brexit comes back to haunt

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2016
... Brexit referendum. And then, a month and a bit later (16 June), Trump announced that his ambition to become the next President of the United States. I still can recall the giggles, the rolling of the eyes, the hilarious tweets that followed whenever ...

Raising rates on soybeans

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 OCT 2016
... investors' ears sent the S&P 500 index down - 0.3% on the day and 0.7% for the week? A case of good news is bad news? The Donald handed a Trump card by the FBI's fresh probe on Hillary's "emailgate" so very, very close to the Presidential elections? ...

Buffett fires back at Trump tax claims

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2016
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett has hit back at Donald Trump's criticism of his tax affairs in the latest presidential debate by publishing tax returns showing he's never used the tax deduction exploited by the Republican nominee. During the debate ...

Australian elections just gave uncertainty a top up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2016
... beginning of the destruction of not only the EU but also of western political civilization in its entirety." -Donald Tusk, President of the European Council I thought he went over the top and got carried away when I read Monsieur Tusk's foreboding at ...

May sell may go away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2016
... was widely expected to announce more largesse. Instead, we got BOJ governor Haruhiko Kuroda doing an impression of ECB president Mario Draghi. "There's absolutely no change to our stance of aiming to achieve two percent inflation at the earliest date ...