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Pre-Christmas delivery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 DEC 2017
... big, beautiful tax cut for Christmas. With final passage of this legislation, that is exactly what they are getting." (Donald Trump) The US Congress passed the long-awaited US$1.5 trillion tax reform package that will cut the US corporate income tax ...

Xero founder sells $94.5m in shares to fund philanthropy

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 17 NOV 2017
... Thiel, who became Facebook's first outside investor in 2004, broke rank with the majority of Silicon Valley by supporting Donald Trump during the 2016 US Presidential election. Thiel was later appointed to then President-elect Trump's transition team ...

China trade deficit with Australia widens

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2017
... the release of China's trade balance just as US President Trump lands in the Middle Kingdom should help partly assuage Donald's displeasure with the US-China trade imbalance. China's trade surplus contracted sharply to US$38.2 billion in October from ...

Changed RBA rate expectations?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2017
... the central bank chiefs and their henchmen months, weeks and days before. So too was the well-telegraphed US President Donald Trump's nomination of Jerome Powell. If (when?) approved by the US Senate Powell will replace sitting Fed Chair Janet Yellen ...

Enter the dragon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2017
... Politburo says jump and economic agents ask how high, ensuring that if managed properly, the answer would be, higher than Donald Trump's country.

Beige Book report delivers known knowns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2017
... growth, a tight/tightening labour market but modest growth in wages and inflation. To quote former US Defence Secretary Donald Henry Rumsfeld, "these are known knowns." Aside from the reference to the disruptions caused by the hurricanes, the October ...

Trump-flation returns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2017
Love him or loathe him, Donald Trump remains the stuff of headlines going into and since he won the 8 November 2016 US presidential election. Reports abound about Trump versus Kim, Trump versus NATO, Trump versus the NFL, Trump versus Alec Baldwin and ...

Transparency to the max

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 SEP 2017
... "forward guide" anybody what the end game would be with regards to the US-North Korean tensions - perhaps not even Kim and Donald - but as far forward monetary policy directions are concerned, the central banks have got us sorted.

Markets are stronger than Trump

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2017
... Gold Coast, Hobson said it's dangerous to attempt to orient one's investment decisions around political ephemera - citing Donald Trump and North Korean hostilities as examples. "Your ultimate question should be around what's going on with individual ...

Republican Party-themed ETF launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 1 SEP 2017
... Responsible Investing' products. It will list under ticker code 'MAGA', which incidentally is an acronym for President Donald Trump's slogan 'make America great again' used during his 2016 presidential campaign. (The Republican Party is commonly referred ...