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Chief economist update: "Quitaly"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2018
Move over China and North Korea, you too Iran and Israel, a new old crisis has come back to town...and it could be bigger. While the financial market world still haven't seen the end game of US President Donald Trump's protectionist trade policies ...

Chief economist update: A US dollar story

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2018
The times, they are a-changin'. After reaching a peak of 103.01 on the 23 December 2016, the Bloomberg US dollar index began its long descent before hitting a three-year low of 89.19 in February this year - a 13.4% depreciation. The US dollar has ...

Chief economist update: All Ords rising

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2018
Six index points or 0.1% is all the All Ordinaries index needs to add to by the close of today's trading activity and it would match the decade-high (January 2008) closing level of 6241.46 points recorded on January 9 this year. As at yesterday's ...

Chief economist update: When good oil goes bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2018
... million barrels in the latest week, the upward momentum in crude oil prices remains. Recent reports that US President Donald Trump would reimpose sanctions against Iran after 180 days (unless a "deal" is agreed upon) would only put a rocket under the ...

Chief economist update: Can't get enough of war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2018
War: it seems that US president Donald Trump cannot get enough of it. Trump began his war crusade with the media (and fake news), then moved on to North Korea (although this was instigated by Kim's nuclear "exercises"), then trade and China, last weekend ...

Chief economist update: Caught in the crossfire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2018
... the lucky group of countries (that include the EU, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Mexico and South Korea) US President Donald Trump, in all his benevolence, graciously granted exemptions (albeit, temporarily) from his protectionist crusade? Yet, apart from ...

Chief economist update: The survey says...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2018
With China in the centre of US president Donald Trump's protectionist crosshairs, China needs the result of latest surveys on its economy like a hole in the head...or so it seems. In early March, China's purchasing managers' indices surveyed by both ...

Chief economist update: The uncertainty that is Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2018
... 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 10-year bond yields have fallen from the ...

Tariff exemption a sigh of relief: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2018
Directly subjecting Australia to US President Donald Trump's proposed steel and aluminium tariffs would have been dire for the country's resources sector, according to more than half (63%) of respondents in Financial Standard 's weekly spot poll. Australia ...

Chief economist update: The art of the deal exemplified

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2018
And so it comes to pass. US President Donald Trump did what he promised he would. "Today I'm defending America's national security by placing tariffs on foreign imports of steel and aluminium...we will have a 25% tariff on foreign steel and a 10% tariff ...