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Chief economist update: Three ayes for a rate hike

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018
... pressures for the BOE (because of these speculations), there's the risk to growth from the stronger currency and brewing trade war and then there's the lingering uncertainty of Brexit. Ben Ong is the Director of Economics and Investments at Rainmaker ...

Chief economist update: Trade war and peace

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2018
... retaliatory 25% tariff on US$50 billion worth of US imports. It'll be pitiful if this escalates into an all-out global trade war and reverses the efforts of central bankers towards bringing abnormal monetary policies towards normality. Not when they ...

Chief economist update: Another five minutes of sunshine?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018
... The US may have exempted Australia from its tariffs but if Trump's protectionist policies escalate into a global trade war, particularly with China - Australia's biggest export client - the consequent growth slowdown in our trading partners would ...

Chief economist update: Capex and credit and the trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2018
... company, Australia - tariff-exempt as it may be - wouldn't be able to escape the negative consequences of an all-out trade war, i.e. weaker global growth, rising inflation and reduced profits. This could help explain the lower than expected increase ...

Chief economist update: A US dollar story

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2018
... that stops the upward trending momentum of the US dollar, particularly in the current environment of a brewing global trade war. In as much as the dollar weakness of days gone by has underpinned stronger US economic growth - and prompted some deceleration ...

Chief economist update: All Ords rising

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2018
... low of 5859.15 points registered on 3 April 2018. That was the time everybody and his dog were fretting over a global trade war that was prompted by US President Donald Trump's announcement of 25% tariff on steel imports and 10% on aluminium. This ...

SMSF home bias drags returns

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2018
Self-managed super funds' home bias dragged returns for the sector in the 12 months to February, latest SuperGuard 360 research shows. According to the SG360 SMSF Reference Index, SMSFs generated a 5.5% return (before fees and tax) - well below the ...

Chief economist update: Let's talk about oil baby

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2018
... President Xi Jinpeng, sent equity markets on the up and up. Instead of talking tough and raising the ante on the brewing trade war with the US, Xi announced the opposite. In his speech at the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference, the supremo talked ...

Chief economist update: Trump trumps Brexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2018
... Cohen... but whatever it is, it had diverted investor attention away from Brexit. For sure, Britain would be dragged into a trade war if it escalates, but at least Downing Street is not in Trump's crosshairs for the UK buys more goods from America. US ...

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

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 APR 2018
... Great Again," only Trump knows - problem is, China's Supremo isn't blinking. To be sure, the prospect of an escalating trade war between the world's number-one and number-two biggest economies in the world is enough to get many investors quivering in ...