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Chief economist update: The risks just got real

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2018
... them. Whatever the indicators indicate and the central banks decide on would be null and void should US President Donald Trump make good on his 25/10 tariff threat (25% tariff on steel and 10% on aluminium) this week and there's certain retaliation from ...

Chief economist update: Trump spoils for war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2018
"You're going to have protection for the first time in a long time." For better or worse, US President Donald Trump continues to deliver on his campaign promises. Wall Street took Trump's latest promise fulfilment as an excuse to take profits. The Dow ...

Chief economist update: Build, build, and build some more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 JAN 2018
... releases are scheduled for this week - ones that could either preserve or disrupt the status quo. In America, President Donald Trump will deliver his 'State of the Union' address and the Fed meets for the first time this year (and Madam Yellen's last). ...

The darling buds of inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2018
... release of the December CPI report. Chances are Kashkari will get his wish and soon. The passage of US President Donald Trump's tax cuts into law has already prodded several US companies to announce pay hikes. As CNBC reported late last month, "Fifth ...

Changed RBA rate expectations?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2017
... 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 on ...

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 ...

Super funds condemn Trump climate withdrawal

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2017
... Superannuation Investors (ACSI), representing $1.5 trillion in funds under management, has condemned US President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the country from the Paris Agreement on climate change. Trump justified the withdrawal saying his administration ...

Good to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 MAY 2017
... next six months, pulled back by 4.3 percentage points to 30.0%." Good or bad, the survey also found that, "President Donald Trump is having a big influence on many investors' attitudes".

O Canada

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2017
... Just when the drumbeats of war - the nuclear kind - have recently been withdrawing from the headlines, US president Donald Trump could be starting another, a trade war. Sure, Trump's protectionist' policy remains at the back of everyone's minds but that ...

Obamacare one, Trump nil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 MAR 2017
... an even better healthcare plan." - Remarks by President Trump on the Health Care Bill. Yes Virginia, US President Donald Trump learned a lot last week. The unfolding events did, however, strengthen the credibility of the democratic process in America. ...