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Chief economist update: Oil slick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2018
... contraction. Ergo, lesser demand for oil. As per supply, Trump's recent decision exempting eight countries - China, India, Greece, Italy, Taiwan, Japan, Turkey and South Korea - from buying Iranian oil means that Iran's oil production would continue ...

FSC appoints UBS, Mercer heads

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2018
... Walsh has worked for the Group for more than 20 years in a variety of local and regional roles including in the UK, USA and India.

Chief economist update: An Indian surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2018
Just when we thought the times of central bank surprises were things of the past, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) brought them back. The RBI kept interest rates unchanged - repo rate at 6.5%, reverse repo rate at 6.25% - at the conclusion of its October ...

Chief economist update: Submerging markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2018
Emerging markets had been rallying even before 2017 turned into 2018, outperforming developed markets - 27.8% versus 16.3% - at the end of last year. Those were the days of synchronised growth upswing, given more oomph by Trump's declared corporate ...

Chief economist update: Emerging markets feel the heat as Turkey burns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2018
Emerging markets continue to feel the heat from Turkey's roasting and so do several European countries. The European Central Bank (ECB) can only count its blessings that Turkey is not Greece. It has applied, but Turkey is not (yet) a member of the ...

Chief economist update: Submerging markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2018
... Asian emerging equity markets at a pace unseen since the global financial crisis of 2008 - withdrawing $19 billion from India, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand so far this year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg... Developing ...

China A-shares to shake up EM funds

KARREN VERGARA AND DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2018
... Felipe Asenjo Wilkins, says Australian investors targeting emerging markets have generally lent towards BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) stocks as well as wider Asia. However, he says the Pacific Alliance trade bloc comprising Mexico, Colombia ...

Chief economist update: Can't get enough of war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2018
... economy's GDP over a 12-month period. Based on the US Treasury's findings, China, Japan, South Korea, Germany, Switzerland and India are thus put in the "Monitoring List". "Japan, Germany, and Korea have met two of the three criteria in every Report ...

Chief economist update: No target sign on India's back

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 APR 2018
... understandable because as at the end of 2017, it sold US$375.2 billion worth of goods to the US than it bought. Speaking of which, India can count on its lucky stars - neither exempted nor reliant enough on Uncle Sam for its domestic fortune. India still ...

Chief economist update: Synchronised global slowing?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2018
... counter-threat for as the JP Morgan Global Manufacturing survey reports, "Growth slowed in the euro area, China, Japan, India and Australia, but improved in the US, the UK, Brazil and Russia". Yes, America still remains on top. Growth continues to improve ...