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Pre-retirees lack confidence about retirement: Qantas Super

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2018
... older were the most secure about retirement savings. More than half of the participants felt external factors like US economy, rising cost of living, and regulation changes affected their ability to save for retirement. "We are among the best retirement ...

Chief economist update: The uncertainty that is Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2018
... of hope, it was the winter of despair," Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities. It still is the best of times for the US economy for in spite of President Donald Trump's micro-management the S&P 500 index remains 3.4% in the green so far this year and ...

Chief economist update: Trump spoils for war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2018
... nuclear, currency and trade. But - as the song goes - war is good for absolutely nothing. Case in point. To aid the US economy out of the 1930's Depression, the government enacted the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act on 17 June 1930. It increased the tariffs ...

Chief economist update: The Fed's force is with us

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2018
... prophecy about inflation lifting "this year" will come true. There's no question that given strengthening momentum in the US economy, full employment and wages on the up and up, that eventually, inflation would lift. The freshly-signed tax cuts ensure ...

Chief economist update: The spook on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2018
... indicating a more upward sloping yield curve (unless bond yields catch up) that, in turn, portends stronger growth for the US economy. And speaking of stronger US economic growth, Trump's tax cuts have not yet have time to flow through into corporate ...

Chief economist update: The angel in the details

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2018
The US economy had been expected to slow in the fourth quarter of 2017... but not this slow. The advance estimate of US GDP showed economic growth decelerated to a 2.6% annual rate in the December 2017 quarter from a two-and-a-half-year high of 3.2% ...

Chief economist update: Red light on greenback

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2018
... the same breath, he declared that, "Longer term, the strength of the dollar is a reflection of the strength of the US economy..." Hopefully, Mnuchin's "long-term" is not as long as John Maynard Keynes' because to quote, "for in the long run, we are all ...

Chief economist update: Bond sell bomb shell

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2018
... advanced economies as a whole slowing from 2.3% in 2017 to 2.2% next year, 1.9% in 2019 and 1.7% in 2020. It estimates the US economy advancing from 2.3% last year to 2.5% in 2018 before slowing to 2.2% in 2019 and 2% in 2020; the Eurozone from 2.4% ...

FS has you covered in 2017

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017
... Global Financial Crisis. The annual breakfast forum, held at The Westin in Sydney, covered off Trump's impact on the US economy and the global economy and financial markets in general; it also mentioned the potential impact of several European elections ...

Pre-Christmas delivery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 DEC 2017
... deep, but he has promises to keep, and miles to go before he sleeps". One especially could add another tailwind to the US economy. This Trump's infrastructure spending where he promised to "invest $550 billion to ensure we can export our goods and move ...