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Chief economist update: The Fed pause that refreshes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2019
... fear gauge - has come down and now US equities are on the up and up. Suddenly, diktats to the Fed earlier this month by Trump - "In terms of quantitative tightening it should absolutely now be quantitative easing" - and White House economic adviser Larry ...

Chief economist update: EUr next

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2019
... when we're just a handshake away from a Sino-US trade deal, another war on trade this way comes. US President Donald Trump must be wringing his hands at how he succeeded in making China kowtow - er, compromise - to his demands. Trump's now trained ...

Chief economist update: Two indicators giving the Fed a headache

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2019
... actually have to pay." Repeat: the Fed tracks the HEADLINE PCE price index, not the CORE. Looking at the time series picture, Trump and Kudlow have valid points. The annual rate of growth in the headline PCE price index peaked at 2.3% in May 2018, dropped ...

Trump will continue to buoy stock markets: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 APR 2019
Robert Mueller's findings that US President Donald Trump did not collude with Russia during the 2016 election campaign is good news for the global share markets, Financial Standard's latest spot poll shows. The majority of readers (68%) agree that ...

Australia appeals holistically to foreign investors: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2019
... Financial Standard. In this week's poll, we ask: What the impact of Robert Mueller's findings on US President Donald Trump will have on the global financial markets. This fortnight's edition delves into foreign investors' appetite for ...

Chief economist update: BOJ decision announced and ignored

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2019
I wasn't aware of this, but it appears that Donald J. Trump had been letting his fingers do the talking even before he became POTUS. The "Daily Mail" re-printed the tweet he made back on 30 December 2013: ""No one remembers who came in second" - ...

Chief economist update: The AUD's resilience

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2019
... would have discussed the slowing trend in the Australian economy, the multiplier effects of the housing downturn, tariff man Trump, the global slowdown (particularly China). Not to mention the Australian dollar's resilience amid all these challenges ...

Chief economist update: Prepare for lift-off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2019
It may have "started with a kiss" for British soul band "Hot Chocolate", but several years from now, when we look back at what I foresee as the re-starting of the engines of global growth, we'll all know that this started with the Powell pause. ...

Chief economist update: A capitalist in communist clothes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2019
... institutions to lend, consumers to consume, businesses to borrow, etc. If only the Politburo could do the same thing to Trump.

Chief economist update: Time to pig out on China shares?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2019
... GDP has further increased in 2018 continues to do so. That's good. Even better is Factset's latest report on the Trump-Xi trade talks: "Bloomberg cited people familiar with discussions who said most or all US tariffs on China likely to be lifted ...